Re: On autogenerated ChangeLog

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 04/20/2009 09:02 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 12:48 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 21:54 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > > Hey,
> > >
> > > I first wrote Makefile.am magic for Pango to generate ChangeLog from git on
> > > demand.  Those macros have been modified and gathered in
> > > http://live.gnome.org/Git/ChangeLog to only generate ChangeLog for "make
> > > dist".  I wonder what people actually want to have, so I can work on canonical
> > > macros to copy across projects (and eventually find a better way to
> > > distribute).  Pros and cons:
> > I tweaked this macro a bit for gvfs and nautilus:
> >
> > Here is what I use:
> > git log --stat -M -C --name-status --date=short --no-color | fmt --split-only
> >
> > Its uses less space and is imho just as useful for causual offline use.
> > And if you want more there is git anyway.

I like the more verbose format clearly showing which changes are big and which 
are small.


> Could we get the ChangeLog generation added as a macro to gnome-common?
>
> That would make it easier, and more consistent. We should also use
> --since or --after so as to avoid duplicating data that's in the other
> ChangeLogs.

That's basically why I'm trying to figure out how we want it to work.

behdad

> Cheers