I still fail to understand the bikeshedding here - you really don't need a git checkout to get something akin to a changelog. Use the github API directly...
The following 1-liner could be trivially productised (maybe even parse $PWD to set the path argument...) curl https://api.github.com/repos/gentoo/gentoo/commits?path=app-admin/eselect | perl -MJSON -e 'foreach $i (@{decode_json(join("",@lines=<STDIN>))}) { print "$i->{commit}->{author}->{name} - $i->{commit}->{author}->{date}\n\n $i->{commit}->{message}\n"; }' Yeah - it's not quite as pretty as our current Changelog, but date, author/committer, commit-msg etc. are all there and you can filter by path just the same as you would with native git log... You could parse the local $PORTDIR/metadata/timestamp* and add an 'until' param to the URL to filter commits beyond where a user has rsync'd up to... Cheers, malc. On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 6:14 PM, Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>>>>> On Wed, 2 Mar 2016, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > >> On 02/03/16 03:50 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>> How is it possible that we have 52 MiB of ChangeLog entries >>> generated in the 0.5 years since the git conversion, whereas we had >>> only a total of 103 MiB in the 13.5 years since ChangeLogs were >>> introduced in 2002? Certainly our commit rate hasn't increased by >>> more than an order of magnitude in the last half year? > >> The content of a changelog entry from git is a lot bigger than it >> was just from echangelog, isn't it? > > Not by a factor of ten. > > I've investigated a bit, and the main problem seems to be that for git > commits that extend over several directories, the commit message is > duplicated into many ChangeLog entries. > > For example, the message of the initial commit 56bd759 appears in some > 18000 files, which accounts for 25 MiB. Then there is commit eaaface > and its revert 1bfb585, again appearing in almost all ChangeLog files > in the tree. These account for another 9 MiB. Last example, commit > 8849b09, another 2 MiB. > > So about 70% of the size is caused by these 4 tree-wide commits alone. > However, there are many more examples of duplication on a smaller > scale. > > Ulrich
