Re: [gentoo-dev] [git migration] The problem of ChangeLog generation

[Markos Chandras]

On Wednesday 07 April 2010 21:41:49 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
> 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
Ah you are right. It seems that I missed that e-mail on my inbox. Thanks for 
posting it again.
It seems we are on the same page :)
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Markos Chandras (hwoarang)
Gentoo Linux Developer
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