Yes, but still: in many cases they are very similar. Plus, it's hard to auto-add a NEWS entry from a commit message (because you need to determine the right section), while it's easy to pre-fill the commit message from a NEWS diff.
Georg Anthony Baxter schrieb: > Often the NEWS entry ends up being rewritten from the commit message to > be more user-focussed description of the change... > >> On Sep 14, 2009 6:33 PM, "Georg Brandl" <g.bra...@gmx.net >> <mailto:g.bra...@gmx.net>> wrote: >> >> Brett Cannon schrieb: >> >> >> brainstorm: >> >> It'd be nicer if we could generate the file from >> another source, >> perhaps ke... >> >> We should just switch to Mercurial :) >> >> I've already hacked up a hg extension to automatically fill the commit >> message >> with the changes in a NEWS or CHANGELOG file. This works quite well >> -- you >> add the short but nice description to NEWS, do "hg commit", and the editor >> pops up where you can either accept the message consisting of only the >> changes >> in NEWS, or add some more stuff that's not interesting to users. _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers