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Re: [Bug-tar] Documentation bug
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: [Bug-tar] Documentation bug |
Date: |
Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:20:05 +0200 |
Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 07/26/2012 01:49 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> can we always count on the vc-dwim boilerplate to
>> be the same to automatically prune it from gitlog-to-changelog?
>
> Probably not, but we can keep a catalog of all of them,
> surely, assuming this problem persists indefinitely,
> which I hope it doesn't.
How about just not writing the boilerplate text
to ChangeLog when that file already exists?
Then, if you've created a ChangeLog file to be used
by vc-dwim, bootstrap will never touch it.
(BTW, the second sentence seems incorrect:
I saw no makefile rule for "ChangeLog" in tar.)
diff --git a/bootstrap.conf b/bootstrap.conf
index 6255ba9..e0bca02 100644
--- a/bootstrap.conf
+++ b/bootstrap.conf
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ fi
test -d m4 || mkdir m4
test -d $source_base || mkdir $source_base
-cat > ChangeLog <<EOT
+test -f ChangeLog || cat > ChangeLog <<EOT
This file is a placeholder. It will be replaced with the actual ChangeLog
by make dist. Run make ChangeLog if you wish to create it earlier.
EOT