Re: On autogenerated ChangeLog

[Guido Günther <agx sigxcpu org>]

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 03:21:52PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Gustavo Noronha <gns gnome org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 12:17 -0400, Dan Winship wrote:
> >> But that's just a gut feeling and maybe it's wrong. The point is,
> >> ChangeLogs were invented back when RCS-files-on-an-NFS-server was the
> >> pinnacle of version control technology, and maybe what was most useful
> >> then isn't what's most useful now.
> >
> > Coming in a bit too late, I'd point out that having the ChangeLog files
> > is good for when all you have is a tarball - think being offline. I
> > otherwise agree with you completely.
> 
> That's why it should be generated automatically when creating tarballs.
I'm all in favour of this. Debian's git-buildpackage has a quite
simplistic git-dch for that purpose. It can prefix changelog entries
with parts of the SHA1 so you can connect them back to git easily.
 -- Guido