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Re: ChangeLog entry complexity
- From: OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>
- To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>, Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>, Petr Baudis <pasky at ucw dot cz>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 11:26:06 +0200
- Subject: Re: ChangeLog entry complexity
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On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 10:25:09AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 03/12/2013 03:27 AM, Jeff Law wrote:
> >Any thoughts on keeping the ChangeLog formatting, but just putting it in
> >the commit message and generating the ChangeLog from commit messages?
>
> It would make it impossible to fix changelog entries after the
> commit that added them.
>
Possible, you could for example commit something like
"Fix changelog 7702625ce9de9ac8fab0582f0c12cb185431f184:
new message"
and modify placeholder file.
Generator that support this would still be relatively easy to write.
Originaly I though less elegant way. For example scanning libc-alpha
archives and changelog would be extracted from last message with
same subject as first line of commit message that contains
start changelog
message
end changelog
Ondra