On 11/01/2015 02:24 PM, hasufell wrote: > On 11/01/2015 01:16 PM, Patrick Lauer wrote: >> Ahoi, >> >> I'm getting mildly very irritated with the lack of easily accessible >> ChangeLogs for our packages. >> >> Apparently updating them stopped some time in August, so now there are >> some outdated ChangeLogs that don't really serve any purpose, and the >> easiest way for users to figure out why something changed is to yell at >> the clumsy gitweb.g.o interface. So instead of grep we now need lots of >> patience. >> >> This does not look reasonable to me. >> >> Can we please either properly remove ChangeLogs and tell people to not >> be curious about changes, or make them useful again? >> > > ChangeLogs are a deprecated and unreliable method of the times we were > still on CVS. E.g. some people didn't find it useful to add ChangeLog > entries when they did large eclass changes. This problem is gone now. ... ?!??!#??$>@%%*%**%@!!!
>From the point of view of a user ChangeLogs are VERY VERY USEFUL. Why would you claim they are deprecated? > > git log -- app-misc/foo > or > git log -- eclass/autotools.eclass > > will give you _any_ commit that has touched that file/directory, even if > it was part of a huge mass commit. $ cd /usr/portage/app-admin/rex/; git log fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git sooo ... ??? > > There's really not much ChangeLogs add for you here, except duplicating > git functionality. It's more useful to familiarize yourself with git > log. There's no reason to depend on the gitweb interface. > > If you want the history from before the migration to work with that as > well, you can use this method: > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_git_workflow#Grafting_Gentoo_History_Onto_the_Active_Repo > > Also see > https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/git-log/filtering-the-commit-history > I have no idea what you are trying to say, but for most users this advice is not even useless but actively wrong. With that out of the way, can we please return to the original discussion?
