Re: ChangeLog (or lack of it)

[Philip Withnall <philip withnall gmail com>]

You could look at the svn log and see if the last commit changed a
ChangeLog file. If the ChangeLog's in use, *all* commits should change
it.

Philip

On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 23:25 +0100, Rui Gouveia wrote:
> Wouter Bolsterlee wrote:
> > 2008-08-30 klockan 23:51 skrev Leonardo F. Fontenelle:
> >   
> >> Not much; the ChangeLog usually exists, but with a message telling us
> >> not to change it. If at least there was an standard for that message, we
> >> could reliably automate the check.
> >>     
> >
> > Perhaps grepping for "^200" helps? If there is a line starting with "200" it
> > is likely to be a real ChangeLog file with timestamps.
> >   
> If you grep the last date used
> 
> $ head -n 1 ChangeLog | cut -d' ' -f1
> 2008-08-30
> 
> you can calculate how many days have elapsed since then, you can decide
> that if not updated for X days, it's obsolete.
> 
> Rui Gouveia
> 
> >   mvrgr, Wouter
> >
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