Re: [Bug-tar] Documentation bug

2012-07-27 Thread Jim Meyering
Sergey Poznyakoff wrote: > Jim Meyering ha escrit: >> (BTW, the second sentence seems incorrect: >> I saw no makefile rule for "ChangeLog" in tar.) > > It is in Make.rules, which is imported from Paxutils. Thanks for the info. This particular working directory had an old cvs-based paxutils/ dire

Re: [Bug-tar] Documentation bug

2012-07-27 Thread Paul Eggert
On 07/27/2012 01:20 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > How about just not writing the boilerplate text > to ChangeLog when that file already exists? Thanks, I installed that in your name.

Re: [Bug-tar] Documentation bug

2012-07-27 Thread Sergey Poznyakoff
Jim Meyering ha escrit: > (BTW, the second sentence seems incorrect: > I saw no makefile rule for "ChangeLog" in tar.) It is in Make.rules, which is imported from Paxutils. Regards, Sergey

Re: [Bug-tar] Documentation bug

2012-07-27 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert wrote: > On 07/26/2012 01:49 PM, Eric Blake wrote: >> can we always count on the vc-dwim boilerplate to >> be the same to automatically prune it from gitlog-to-changelog? > > Probably not, but we can keep a catalog of all of them, > surely, assuming this problem persists indefinitely, >

Re: [Bug-tar] Documentation bug

2012-07-26 Thread Paul Eggert
On 07/26/2012 01:49 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > can we always count on the vc-dwim boilerplate to > be the same to automatically prune it from gitlog-to-changelog? Probably not, but we can keep a catalog of all of them, surely, assuming this problem persists indefinitely, which I hope it doesn't.

Re: [Bug-tar] Documentation bug

2012-07-26 Thread Eric Blake
[adding Jim, as author of vc-dwim; and gnulib, as owner of gitlog-to-changelog] On 07/26/2012 12:50 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 07/26/2012 10:19 AM, Eric Blake wrote: >> You'll need to install a followup to amend the >> generated ChangeLog when running gitlog-to-changelog (see how coreutils >> use