From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Han-Wen Nienhuys Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: git and changelogs Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 17:53:23 -0300 Message-ID: References: <87bq3f1br2.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: hanwen@xs4all.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1211057669 13353 80.91.229.12 (17 May 2008 20:54:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 20:54:29 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 17 22:55:06 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 1JxTQn-00052f-Hb for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 May 2008 22:55:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51694 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JxTQ3-0007YH-NN for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 May 2008 16:54:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JxTPz-0007WS-K1 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 May 2008 16:54:15 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JxTPx-0007UW-VJ for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 May 2008 16:54:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34020 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JxTPx-0007UM-NO for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 May 2008 16:54:13 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:44262 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 1JxTPx-0004VT-CU for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 May 2008 16:54:13 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JxTPs-0004wf-2y for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 May 2008 20:54:08 +0000 Original-Received: from 201.80.72.52 ([201.80.72.52]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 17 May 2008 20:54:08 +0000 Original-Received: from hanwen by 201.80.72.52 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 17 May 2008 20:54:08 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 201.80.72.52 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) In-Reply-To: <87bq3f1br2.fsf@gnu.org> 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:7252 Archived-At: Ludovic Courtès escreveu: >> 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. LilyPond was the first project to switch to Git, and the ChangeLog was one of the first things that we junked. * It's a nuisance, because it always conflicts on merges. * After you've used git log -Ssuspect_text -p branch -- the ChangeLog looks like a joke. * We did have some autogenerated changelogs for a while, but I have never seen any evidence that they were used. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen