+1 for using git log instead of CHANGES.txt. Colin
On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Chris Douglas <cdoug...@apache.org> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Andrew Wang <andrew.w...@cloudera.com> wrote: >> Not to derail the conversation, but if CHANGES.txt is making backports more >> annoying, why don't we get rid of it? It seems like we should be able to >> generate it via a JIRA query, and "git log" can also be used for a quick >> check (way faster than svn log). > > +1 > > As long as release notes and incompatible changes are recorded in each > branch, we gain no accuracy by maintaining this manually. Commit > messages that record the merge revisions instead of the change are > similarly hateful. -C
