From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: git and changelogs Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 22:08:33 +0200 Message-ID: <87bq3f1br2.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210363751 23485 80.91.229.12 (9 May 2008 20:09:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 20:09:11 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 09 22:09:48 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JuYuU-0001bl-Gr for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 May 2008 22:09:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41303 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JuYtm-0000bX-5k for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 May 2008 16:08:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JuYtf-0000bP-Kp for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 May 2008 16:08:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JuYtf-0000bD-2B for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 May 2008 16:08:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54960 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JuYte-0000bA-VP for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 May 2008 16:08:51 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:51351 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JuYte-0004Vw-E6 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 May 2008 16:08:50 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JuYtX-0005ia-Jg for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 May 2008 20:08:43 +0000 Original-Received: from reverse-83.fdn.fr ([80.67.176.83]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 09 May 2008 20:08:43 +0000 Original-Received: from ludo by reverse-83.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 09 May 2008 20:08:43 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: reverse-83.fdn.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 21 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Flor=E9al?= an 216 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 821D 815D 902A 7EAB 5CEE D120 7FBA 3D4F EB1F 5364 X-OS: i686-pc-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Hb3QZl5fkHhLdA+awF6uDqjhH7A= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:7229 Archived-At: Hi, Andy Wingo writes: > Now that we've switched to git, hows about moving our changelogs to > ChangeLog.old, and just using commit logs? We can still generate > changelogs on release, if that's a desire. I'd be tempted to do that, but among the many GNU projects that switched to Git, apparently none of them did away with ChangeLogs, and I would understand reluctance to remove them. Simon Josefsson wrote `git2cl' (http://josefsson.org/git2cl/), which could be helpful if we are to generate ChangeLogs upon release. Thanks, Ludovic.