On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 01:04:02PM +0100, Matthijs Kooijman wrote: > Package: git-buildpackage > Version: 0.4.62 > Severity: wishlist > > Hi, > > I've started using git-buildpackage recentely and have encountered the > need for explicitly marking git commits to be ignored by git-dch. While > working with the package, there are some commits which are really > trivial or so specific to the buildsystem, that I don't think they > should end up in the Debian changelog. For example, I just committed a > .gbp.conf file to a branch, which is really not interesting to end users > of the package. > > I could of course remove the entry after generating the final changelog, > but marking it as uninteresting up-front makes more sense to me. > > This request seems similar to #523751, but that wishlist bug really > addresses a different issue. > > I would propose adding an extra meta header "Git-Dch: Ignore" (or > "Exclude"?). Alternatively, a header like "Git-Dch-Exclude" or > "Git-Dch-Ignore" without a value could be used, though that's less > consistent with Closes: and Thanks. My preference would be a "Git-Dch: > Ignore" header. > > I think a (commandline) option like --meta-closes is not needed for this > header? > > Implementation of this feature should be simple, if there is interest > I could whip up a patch. "Git-Dch: Ignore" makes sense. Having a patch would be nice. Maybe we'll have things like: "Git-Dch: nofilter" or similar later. -- Guido
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