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Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?
From: |
Giuseppe Scrivano |
Subject: |
Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? |
Date: |
Tue, 08 Mar 2016 22:59:42 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
John Wiegley <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>>> Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On 03/08/2016 10:56 PM, David Caldwell wrote:
>>> Since notes seem like a no-go, what about taking the same approach but
>>> using an empty commit to do it (`git commit --allow-empty`)? That way it
>>> gets pushed and merged between branches just like normal.
>
>> How would such commit indicate a relation to an existing commit? And after
>> making it, you can't easily edit the result, you can only redo it fully.
>
> What if we had a ADDENDUM file with the following contents:
>
> <COMMIT ID><NEWLINE>
> <REPLACEMENT LOG MESSAGE><NEWLINE>
> <NEWLINE>
>
> Then we could teach vc-region-history and the ChangeLog generator to pay
> attention to it.
the git-to-changelog gnulib module already supports something similar
via --amend=FILE.
For example coreutils is keeping a list of corrections to make to the
git commit messages before the ChangeLog is generated:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/build-aux/git-log-fix
Regards,
Giuseppe
- Re: Code reviews, (continued)
- Re: Code reviews, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/07
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/03/07
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Nikolaus Rath, 2016/03/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/03/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, David Caldwell, 2016/03/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/03/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, John Wiegley, 2016/03/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/03/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?,
Giuseppe Scrivano <=
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, David Caldwell, 2016/03/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/03/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/03/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/07
Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Alan Mackenzie, 2016/03/07
Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? (Was: bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch), Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/07