On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 20:18:07 +0000 "Robin H. Johnson" <robb...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 08:05:56AM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > >>>>> On Mon, 2 Nov 2015, Robin H Johnson wrote: > > > > > 1. Control of the OUTPUT filename for the generated changelog > > > - the from-git generated changelog will go to 'ChangeLog.git' > > > > > [...] > > > > > Without #1, we have to rename ALL of the old changelogs, otherwise > > > they will be overwritten by the new ones from Git history. > > What would be the problem with renaming? IMHO it would be nicer to > > keep the ChangeLog name for the autogenerated files and rename the > > ones from CVS. We already have files renamed to ChangeLog-<year> > > when they became to large, so we could just use ChangeLog-2015 to > > stay within that scheme. > In the rsync tree, but NOT the Git tree, we have > ChangeLog > ChangeLog-YYYY > Where YYYY so far goes as far as 2014. > > And 'ChangeLog' files stopped getting updates on August 8th. > > The old ChangeLog files from CVS are explicitly NOT in Git, but > manually injected during the rsync tree creation. > > If we rename the old ChangeLog files from CVS to ChangeLog-2015, then > we'll have both 'ChangeLog-2015' and 'ChangeLog' (generated from Git) > containing 2015 entries. Worse, what happens when we hit 2016? Do we > merge the old files? It's not perfectly clean but I don't see any problem here: ChangeLog-2015 : all ChangeLog from CVS ChangeLog: autogenerated from git if/when there is a need to split git changelogs, autogenerated changelogs will start from say, Jan. 1st 2016, and previous changes will now be static. Merging CVS2015 and git2015 changelogs is just a matter of running a script. Or just skip splitting them for 2016, and start splitting in 2017, so that ChangeLog-2015 is CVS ones, ChangeLog-2016 is git logs from Aug. 8. 2015 to Dec. 31 2016. IMHO this is still better than having ChangeLog stopping in 2015 and ChangeLog.git starting from this date: Having ChangeLog-2015 from CVS still carries partial information on the timeline. Alexis.
