On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 5:34 AM, Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>>>>> On Sun, 1 May 2011, Markos Chandras wrote: > >> Since most ( if not all ) of us use the same message on the >> Changelog and on the commit log, it probably worth the effort of >> having the rsync servers create the Changelogs before populate the >> portage tree. > > A separate ChangeLog has the advantage that entries for trivial > changes can be omitted. Most people wouldn't want to read entries > about comment changes, for example. Also entries can be edited, which > is not possible if the ChangeLog is generated from commit messages. >
Trivial commit messages can be omitted from the final ChangeLog very easily. We just need to decide on a token to add to the commit message — either [trivial] in the subject, or #trivial in the body, or similar I don't get why someone would want to edit ChangeLogs. Could you list some use-cases besides editing of typos? -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla
