Thierry wrote:
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 01:43:24PM +1200, François Bissey wrote:
[...]
I know that the squashing of the changelog in the new style sage is
unpopular in some quarters but I am sticking to the official line.
I am not sure a hole in the documentation can serve as "the official
line", could you please provide pointers where this has been discussed
by the community ?
Someone wanting to dig the pre-git era, not always well maintained, changelog
in SPKG.txt is welcome to do it from a copy of sage 5.12.
I am not sure that "remove" is a fix for "not always well maintained".
What is the modern way to get the removed information ? git blame ?
Looks like we remove a wiki because of the existence of a mailing-list,
while those tools are transversal.
That said, i am pretty sure there are nice alternatives since quite a
few people seem to be happier without changelog than with, hence could
you please teach us how to use git to get those informations groupped in
an efficient way ? Note that the changelog not only contains version
numbers but also some comments.
In short, what is the git command to get a summary of the changes related
to a package, with pointers to the related trac tickets ?
git log build/pkgs/<package>
modulo giving you things like
commit 65e908c7d21ae0f5ee4e01634e431a6edfbee6a9
Author: Rishikesh <rishi...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu Jan 14 09:07:08 2010 -0800
Note in SPKG.txt regarding changes in this version
and the like (i.e., not very informative commit messages, often without
referencing a patch level and/or ticket number), and occasionally a
dozen of trivial commits in sequence.
Note that earlier, in the era of Mercurial, the argument sometimes was
"we have SPKG.txt, so we don't need informative commit messages".
Dropping patch levels (and hence tagging versions) IMHO just worsens the
situation, my impression being just out of lazyness.
-leif
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