Package: devscripts Version: 2.10.10 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/debcommit
Sometimes I forget to use debcommit, and as a result I make a change without updating the changelog. If this happens, I have to manually create the changelog entry with dch. I'd like to just feed a past commit to debcommit and have it generate the changelog entry; bonus if it generates a commit message along the lines of "Add missing changelog entry for commit $ID: $OLD_COMMIT_MESSAGE". The main problem here lies in how to identify an old commit. Git should allow any committish (sha1, branch, tag, or perhaps nothing to use the most recent commit). Mercurial could work very similarly. SVN could use a revision number. CVS doesn't have anything readily available, though debcommit could perhaps support using the most recent commit, or with recent CVS the value of the commit ID. Arch variants have a commit identifier mechanism that should work. - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-rc1 (PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages devscripts depends on: ii debianutils 2.27 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii dpkg-dev 1.14.7 package building tools for Debian ii libc6 2.6.1-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii perl 5.8.8-11.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii sed 4.1.5-4 The GNU sed stream editor Versions of packages devscripts recommends: ii fakeroot 1.8.4 Gives a fake root environment -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
