Roland Bauerschmidt wrote: > I have thought about that before. However, I meant to implement it this > way: Parse debian/changelog locally, and use new entries as default for > Subversion's changelog. It would prevent debian/changelog to be > cluttered with entries such as "forgot to add file foo last time; really > add it now". (Yes, you could also clean debian/changelog up before > uploading.)
I've done this for years using the attached script (which will work with both svn and cvs (less well), and can also tag releases). -- see shy jo
#!/bin/sh -e
# Commit changes, using the current changelog as the message.
# If $1 is "release", the package is also tagged for release.
if [ -d CVS ]; then
PROG=cvs
elif [ -d .svn ]; then
PROG=svn
else
echo "not in a cvs or subversion directory" >&2
exit 1
fi
echo "Committing with $PROG ..."
if [ "$1" = "release" ] && [ -e debian/changelog ]; then
if head -1 debian/changelog | grep -q UNRELEASED; then
echo "Changelog says it's UNRELEASED, bud."
exit 1
fi
version=`dpkg-parsechangelog | grep Version: | cut -f 2 -d ' '`
$PROG commit -m "releasing version $version"
elif [ "$PROG" = svn ]; then
# use new part of changelog as commit entry
MSG=$(svn diff debian/changelog | grep '^\+ ' | sed 's/^+//')
if [ -n "$MSG" ]; then
$PROG commit -m "$(svn diff debian/changelog | grep '^\+ ' |
sed 's/^+//')"
else
$PROG commit -m "`dpkg-parsechangelog | grep '^ '`"
fi
else
# cvs is too slow for that
$PROG commit -m "`dpkg-parsechangelog | grep '^ '`"
fi
if [ "$1" = "release" ]; then
# Generate the tag. This is compatable with the tag cvs-buildpackage
# uses except for debian native packages.
newversion=`expr $version : '[0-9]:\(.*\)'` 2>/dev/null || true
if [ "$newversion" ]; then
version=$newversion
fi
if [ -d CVS ]; then
# escape tag for cvs
if [ "`expr $version : '.*-.*'`" -gt 0 ]; then
tag="debian_version_$version"
else
tag="version_$version"
fi
tag=`echo "$tag" | tr . _`
cvs tag -f $tag
elif [ -d .svn ]; then
tag="$version"
echo "svn copy $(svnpath) $(svnpath tags)/$tag"
if ! svn copy $(svnpath) $(svnpath tags)/$tag -m "tagging
version $version"; then
echo "svn mkdir $(svnpath tags)"
svn mkdir "$(svnpath tags)" -m "create tag subdirectory"
echo "svn copy $(svnpath) $(svnpath tags)/$tag"
svn copy $(svnpath) $(svnpath tags)/$tag -m "tagging
version $version"
fi
fi
fi
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