-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 26/03/12 12:25, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:22 AM, David Sommerseth > <openvpn.l...@topphemmelig.net> wrote: >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 24/03/12 08:58, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: >>> --- .gitattributes | 1 + ChangeLog | 2 ++ 2 files >>> changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 >>> .gitattributes >>> >>> diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 >>> index 0000000..9cf9e1f --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 >>> +1 @@ +ChangeLog ident diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index >>> d498344..d7cc77c 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,6 >>> +1,8 @@ OpenVPN Change Log Copyright (C) 2002-2011 OpenVPN >>> Technologies, Inc. <sa...@openvpn.net> >>> >>> +$Id$ + >> >> What is the purpose of this change? > > Oh... I remembered that this was in tree long ago[1], thought that it > was dropped out when moving to git not intentionally. > > If otherwise, ignore this patch. > > It is nice to see the revision of the changelog as most probably it > is the last revision before release. So if one forget to tag or > something the data is available.
Yeah, I agree that such markers may make sense in some cases. But with git, the closest you can get to make this useful is to use .gitattributes which can be told to update this with the blob sha reference of the ChangeLog file. But that's not much helpful in the end. So I rather suggest we drop this one. There's a rather sane discussion here on this topic: <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/384108/moving-from-cvs-to-git-id-equivalent> Currently, I update ChangeLog when tagging the tree when we're about to do a new release. I use the output of git shortlog as a summary. This information is also available in the message blob of signed tags as well. This way, the ChangeLog is always updated with all committed changes, and for a more verbose changelog, you have 'git log' (or the git web UI). kind regards, David Sommerseth -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk9wSQcACgkQDC186MBRfrr3VwCfa+4ndOkOa62QTT5TGSOQTfN1 MkoAn3ZaD4DTvFtvRzCoNS+60l2riN6J =2JQG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
