On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Markos Chandras <hwoar...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Tuesday 06 April 2010 05:13:02 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > Just a question: > > Why do we even need to care about ChangeLog files? Can't we just use the git > commit message to generate logs? E.g run a script on server side which will > read the whole git shortlog and generate a changelog every $timeframe? >
You seem to have missed the gist of the situation. I'm quoting it here again to highlight it: * It makes zero sense to manually manage ChangeLogs in git[1] [snip] * Proposed is to generate ChangeLogs from git commits on the rsync server side when metadata generation is done - Scripts to do this already exist[1] [snip] 1. http://live.gnome.org/Git/ChangeLog -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team
