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From: "Rüdiger Sonderfeld" <ruediger@c-plusplus.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Subject: Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 17:22:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4131803.RHMh256r17@descartes> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87egt0imgk.fsf@lifelogs.com>

On Tuesday 18 November 2014 09:59:23 Ted Zlatanov wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 09:45:44 -0500 Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> 
wrote:
> >> An even better solution would be to generate the ChangeLog automatically
> >> from the git commit log, as is done in several other GNU projects.
> 
> SM> Agreed.
> 
> What's blocking that?  Just code or are you/we waiting for something
> after the Git migration?

I guess it makes sense to wait until everything has settled from the Git 
migration.  Not introducing too many changes to the workflow at once.

So far it seems the major argument against generating ChangeLogs from commit 
messages was, that the files can be easily edited and fixed.  I'm not sure how 
this can be addressed.  Git's tools to edit commit messages (history) are 
sadly destructive and not transparent.  The support for git-notes(1) seems to 
be rather poor.  I guess we have to look at how other projects have solved 
this.

Anyway, there is a gitlog-to-changelog script in Gnulib as well.  We might be 
able to use that.

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog

Regards,
Rüdiger



  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-18 16:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-14 14:39 Include necessary git tools in the Emacs distribution? Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-14 14:57 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-11-14 14:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-14 16:13 ` Ulrich Mueller
2014-11-15 19:28   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-15 20:04     ` Ulrich Mueller
2014-11-15 20:07       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-15 20:34         ` Kelvin White
2014-11-15 20:35           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-15 20:57             ` Ulrich Mueller
2014-11-15 21:45         ` Glenn Morris
2014-11-16  0:01         ` Lennart Borgman
2014-11-18  2:07   ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2014-11-18  2:15     ` Paul Eggert
2014-11-18 14:45       ` Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages (was: Include necessary git tools in the Emacs distribution?) Stefan Monnier
2014-11-18 14:59         ` Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-18 16:22           ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld [this message]
2014-11-18 17:10         ` Glenn Morris
2014-11-18 17:40           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-18 17:56             ` Paul Eggert
2014-11-18 20:32               ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-11-18 21:12             ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-18 22:05               ` Paul Eggert
2014-11-19 22:36                 ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-20  0:15                   ` Paul Eggert
2014-11-20  2:50                     ` Yuri Khan
2014-11-20  3:15                       ` Paul Eggert
2014-11-20  4:04                         ` Yuri Khan
2014-11-20 20:12                           ` Paul Eggert
2014-11-21  4:25                             ` Kelvin White
2014-11-21  7:57                               ` Paul Eggert
2014-11-19  9:03               ` Bastien
2014-11-19  9:11               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-29 22:35               ` Paul Eggert
2014-11-30  0:23                 ` Jan D.
2014-11-30  9:12                 ` Jorgen Schaefer
2014-11-30 16:15                   ` Paul Eggert
2014-11-30 18:11                     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-30 18:23                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-30 18:30                         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-30 20:32                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-30 21:50                           ` default large-file-warning-threshold (was: Generating the ChangeLog files ...) Paul Eggert
2014-11-30 23:19                             ` default large-file-warning-threshold Óscar Fuentes
2014-11-30 23:22                               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-30 23:31                                 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-12-01  5:46                                   ` Paul Eggert
2014-12-01 15:52                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-01 18:13                                       ` Paul Eggert
2014-12-01 18:19                                         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-12-01 18:24                                           ` Paul Eggert
2014-12-01 20:21                                           ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-12-01 20:32                                             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-12-02  1:17                                               ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-12-02  5:07                                                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-12-01 19:00                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-01 17:06                                 ` Achim Gratz
2014-12-01 17:56                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-01 18:33                                     ` David Kastrup
2014-12-01 19:12                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-01 19:15                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-01 20:47                                   ` Rasmus
2014-12-01 19:15                             ` default large-file-warning-threshold (was: Generating the ChangeLog files ...) Richard Stallman
2014-12-02  5:15                             ` default large-file-warning-threshold Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-12-01  3:24                         ` Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages Stefan Monnier
2014-12-01  3:39                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-01  5:49                           ` Paul Eggert
2014-12-01  7:45                           ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2014-11-30 16:35                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-19  9:02           ` Bastien
2014-11-19  9:38             ` Rasmus
2014-11-19 11:17               ` Bastien
2014-11-19 13:34                 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-11-19 13:50                   ` Bastien
2014-11-19 16:29                 ` Yuri Khan
2014-11-19 16:43                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-19 16:52                     ` Yuri Khan
2014-11-19 18:49                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-20  2:54                         ` Yuri Khan
2014-11-20  9:38                           ` Bastien
2014-11-20  9:33                         ` Bastien
2014-11-20  9:31                   ` Bastien
2014-11-19 16:43             ` David Engster
2014-11-19 22:21               ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-19 22:51                 ` David Engster
2014-11-21 10:03                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-21 16:19                     ` David Engster
2014-11-21 16:58                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-21 17:19                         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-21 17:21                         ` David Engster
2014-11-19 16:54     ` Include necessary git tools in the Emacs distribution? David Engster

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