Re: [Monotone-devel] [from svn list] Case study: Mono switches to Subversion

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 12:25:15PM +0100, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> In message <address@hidden> on Thu, 18 Nov 2004 20:07:02 -0700, Derek 
> Scherger <address@hidden> said:
> 
> derek> The changelog discussion was quite interesting. I've been wondering a 
> derek> bit about the ChangeLog file in the monotone source verses the 
> derek> changelog certs recorded by commit and listed by log and why both 
> would 
> derek> be useful. In particular duplicating the head of the ChangeLog file as 
> derek> the contents of the changelog cert seems somewhat redundant.
> 
> I couldn't agree more.  I find it quite silly, and we could as well
> have it generated using something like cvs2cl (monotone2cl, anyone?).
> I think ChangeLog is really a tribute to the GNU standard...

Alternatively, we could write an edit_comment hook that pulled from
the top of the ChangeLog file...

-- Nathaniel

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