Re: On autogenerated ChangeLog

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le mercredi 22 avril 2009, à 15:56 +0100, Bastien Nocera a écrit :
> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 16:47 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> > Le samedi 18 avril 2009, à 21:54 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod a écrit :
> > > 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:
> > 
> > Can we also agree that for modules dropping ChangeLog, we move the old
> > ChangeLog file to ChangeLog.pre-git?
> > 
> > (and if we can put the commit messages guidelines in ChangeLog instead
> > as done in some modules like seahorse)
> 
> That's a good way to make ChangeLog messages appear along with your
> instructions, some people use scripts...

I'm just suggesting to do what some modules have adopted (and some have
been doing this for quite some time). What kind of scripts can this
break? Maybe it's possible to do something so that the scripts can see
it's not a ChangeLog entry.

Vincent

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