On Sun, May 17, 2020, 15:56 Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> wrote:

> joshua.r.marshall.1991@gmail.com writes:
>
> > From: Josh Marshall <joshua.r.marshall.1991@gmail.com>
>
> Please add commit messages following the GNU ChangeLog style to your
> patches.
>

How do I do that?  This was in large part an exercise to clean up my
development and contribution practice.

I'm surprised that this does not require adding Autoconf etc as
> native-inputs, do you know why that is?
>

I think I let my environment leak, I'll check into in.

Also, won't this cause a circular dependency on 'git-minimal'?  If it
> works for you I guess we got lucky in this case.
>

I'm not sure.  I'll test more in a little bit.

AIUI the lack of tarball integration in Software Heritage is temporary,
> i.e. it will eventually be sorted, and of course back-dated.  So I don't
> think we need to move everything to git while we wait for that.
>

When I looked into it, there appears to have been no progress in a year and
a half.

>