Dne 9.2.2018 v 09:21 Kevin Kofler napsal(a): > Matthew Miller wrote: >> Second, there's package maintainer changelogs. These are really >> redundant with the dist-git log. We don't really need this anymore. >> It's just a chore. > My %changelog entries are not identical to the dist-git commit messages: > > 1. It often takes me several git commits to make a new EVR that builds. > Also, typos in commit messages cannot be fixed. (Both of those issues > could be solved if we were to allow force pushes to dist-git, but that > would open a much bigger can of worms, as you certainly know.) > > 2. Most of my git commit messages are of the form: > > one-line summary > > full copy&paste of the RPM changelog entry, including the line with date, > author and EVR. > > (The only ones that deviate from that format are followup fixup commits > as per point 1.) If you are going to generate RPM changelogs from those > commit messages, they will look really messy, with the date-author-EVR > line duplicated. > > 3. Some of my commit messages contain additional notes that are not intended > for the package changelog. (Typically a full paragraph of explanatory > text.) > > Thus, I think autogenerating the %changelog from dist-git commit messages > would degrade its quality a lot, at least for my packages.
This doesn't mean it could not work. There are, for example, well established [skip ci] marks [1] used to skip CI for minor changes. We could have something similar such as [skip changelog], or something of opposite meaning to include just some specific part of commit message. In the end it would save you at least the "full copy&paste of the RPM changelog entry, including the line with date, author and EVR." work. BTW I assume you know "fedpkg clog" and "git commit -F clog" to save you copy&pasting ;) Vít [1] https://www.google.cz/search?q=skip+ci _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
