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gitlog-to-changelog (was: Re: [PATCH] build: avoid warning from coverity


From: Joel E. Denny
Subject: gitlog-to-changelog (was: Re: [PATCH] build: avoid warning from coverity about lbitset_elt_find)
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:59:01 -0500 (EST)
User-agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23)

Hi,

On Sun, 15 Jan 2012, Akim Demaille wrote:

> Le 13 janv. 2012 à 12:00, Jim Meyering a écrit :

> > What do you think about generating ChangeLog from git log like
> > we do for coreutils, grep, gzip, diffutils, etc.?
> 
> I am personally very much in favor of it.  But I'd like to be
> sure that Joel is too (hi Joel, happy new year!).

Thanks for asking, Akim.  Now that gitlog-to-changelog has --amend, I'm 
much more interested in using it.

However, I still dislike that gitlog-to-changelog sometimes merges 
adjacent log entries that have the same date and author lines.  
Aesthetically, I find this practice inconsistent.  Practically, I find it 
unhelpful (what is the value of this complication?) and potentially 
confusing (in the case that someone has a source tarball and notices a 
ChangeLog entry for which he'd like to find the corresponding commit in 
git).  Jim, I recall there was some recent discussion about all this on 
other mailing lists, and I've probably just recapped that here.  What was 
the conclusion?

Also, how is gitlog-to-changelog intended to behave at merge commits?  
For example, does it follow all parent commits or just the first?  Does it 
print the merge commit itself?  Sorry, I haven't taken the time to try it 
out.  I'm just thinking of an old discussion about how bison.git might one 
day adopt the strategy of merging lower-numbered release series branches 
up to higher-numbered ones.  Currently, we just cherry-pick both ways, 
keeping the logging issues simpler.

That brings up another question.  I cherry-pick with -x, which adds 
helpful info to the git log that's not interesting in the ChangeLog.  Is 
there any automated way for gitlog-to-changelog to drop that info?  (For 
example, --amend could support perl code that applies to all entries.)

Happy new year.

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