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Re: Generating ChangeLog files.
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Generating ChangeLog files. |
Date: |
Fri, 03 Jan 2014 12:12:35 +0200 |
> From: Rüdiger Sonderfeld <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 10:31:39 +0100
> Cc: Michael Albinus <address@hidden>,
> Thierry Volpiatto <address@hidden>
>
> I usually write patches on a branch and rebase them when they are ready to be
> pushed. This always causes merge conflicts for the ChangeLog. (Maybe [1]
> could help a bit.)
There should be no merge conflicts with ChangeLog files. I see an
absolute zero of them. git-merge-changelog and the changelog_merge
plugin in bzr make this not an issue.
> E.g., GNU Octave replaced ChangeLog with an auto-generated ChangeLog from
> commit messages and they seem to be quite happy with that solution.
I've seen a couple of projects that eliminated ChangeLogs. In every
single case, the result was a drastic deterioration in the quality of
the commit log information.
> I know the topic has been discussed several times and it seems a bit
> pointless
> to start the discussion again. But in my opinion ChangeLogs are an even
> bigger issue than the VC because at least I can work around the latter by
> using git-bzr.
As pointed out above, you should be able to resolve the former as
well, in no time.
- Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req., (continued)
- Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req., Bastien, 2014/01/03
- Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req., Rüdiger Sonderfeld, 2014/01/03
- Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req., Daniel Colascione, 2014/01/03
- Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req., Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/03
- Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req., Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/01/03
- Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req., Bastien, 2014/01/03
- Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req., Tassilo Horn, 2014/01/03
- Generating ChangeLog files., Rüdiger Sonderfeld, 2014/01/03
- Re: Generating ChangeLog files.,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Generating ChangeLog files., Bozhidar Batsov, 2014/01/03
- Re: Generating ChangeLog files., Juanma Barranquero, 2014/01/03
- Re: Generating ChangeLog files., Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/03
- Re: Generating ChangeLog files., Kenichi Handa, 2014/01/03
- Re: Generating ChangeLog files., Paul Eggert, 2014/01/03
- Re: Generating ChangeLog files., Richard Stallman, 2014/01/05
- Re: Generating ChangeLog files., Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/04
- Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req., Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/03
- Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req., Bastien, 2014/01/04
- Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req., Achim Gratz, 2014/01/04