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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses: reductio ad absurdum
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 13:45:04
Message-Id: CAGfcS_ndAkGOKejzN9a=EZfwvFixTDAFSMT8=mXMYoJjJxsi7Q@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] ncurses: reductio ad absurdum by walt
1 On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 9:19 AM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >
3 > Note that /usr/portage/sys-libs/ncurses/Changelog was last updated on
4 > April 6, several months ago.
5 >
6 > Rhetorical question: what is the purpose of a Changelog?
7
8 Gentoo is no longer maintaining the old Changelog files. The source
9 of all change logs going forward is in git:
10
11
12 I believe there is interest in creating the old-format Changelogs for
13 the rsync servers. They won't be present in the git repository, since
14 they're just redundant extra data to sync.
15
16 >
17 > Who last updated ncurses, and why?
18
19 git whatchanged /usr/portage/sys-libs/ncurses > /tmp/log.txt
20
21 See the attachment. You can ask git for full diffs as well fairly
22 easily, or show them for individual commits or whatever. Then github
23 or gentoo's git viewer can show you it in a pretty picture.
24
25 --
26 Rich

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