Re: RFD: please drop ChangeLog updates

2008-08-31 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, "Neil Jerram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually, perhaps it would be nicer to put both those notes in a top > level file called "ChangeLog", rather than in HACKING. Yes, that's the most obvious place to put information about ChangeLogs. Other ChangeLogs can be renamed as you suggeste

Re: RFD: please drop ChangeLog updates

2008-08-30 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/8/30 Ludovic Courtès <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Ludovic Courtès escreveu: > >>> Then I guess I'm happy to abolish ChangeLogs. Two questions remain: >>> >>> 1. Should we remove ChangeLog files from the repo? >>> 2. Should we generate ChangeLogs

Re: RFD: please drop ChangeLog updates

2008-08-30 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ludovic Courtès escreveu: >> Then I guess I'm happy to abolish ChangeLogs. Two questions remain: >> >> 1. Should we remove ChangeLog files from the repo? >> 2. Should we generate ChangeLogs for releases? >> >> I'd say "yes" to (1) and "no" to

Re: RFD: please drop ChangeLog updates

2008-08-30 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Ludovic Courtès escreveu: > Hey! > > Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Ludovic Courtès escreveu: > >>> That said, the ideal would be something like `add-change-log-entry' that >>> operates on Git logs instead of ChangeLogs, but there doesn't seem to be >>> anything like this. DV

Re: RFD: please drop ChangeLog updates

2008-08-30 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hey! Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ludovic Courtès escreveu: >> That said, the ideal would be something like `add-change-log-entry' that >> operates on Git logs instead of ChangeLogs, but there doesn't seem to be >> anything like this. DVC is said to support things like that, b

Re: RFD: please drop ChangeLog updates

2008-08-29 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi, On Fri 29 Aug 2008 12:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > That said, the ideal would be something like `add-change-log-entry' that > operates on Git logs instead of ChangeLogs, but there doesn't seem to be > anything like this. DVC is said to support things like that, but it >

Re: RFD: please drop ChangeLog updates

2008-08-29 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Ludovic Courtès escreveu: > Hi, > > Sergey Poznyakoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha escrit: >> >>> Guile is distributed as a tarball, not a git repo. Does it make sense to >>> create the ChangeLog from the git log at make dist time? >>> >> FWIW, there is a gnulib modul

Re: RFD: please drop ChangeLog updates

2008-08-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Sergey Poznyakoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha escrit: > >> Guile is distributed as a tarball, not a git repo. Does it make sense to >> create the ChangeLog from the git log at make dist time? >> > > FWIW, there is a gnulib module for that purpose: gitlog-to-changel

Re: RFD: please drop ChangeLog updates

2008-08-29 Thread Sergey Poznyakoff
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha escrit: > Guile is distributed as a tarball, not a git repo. Does it make sense to > create the ChangeLog from the git log at make dist time? > FWIW, there is a gnulib module for that purpose: gitlog-to-changelog. Once you import it to the project, the following Makefile

Re: RFD: please drop ChangeLog updates

2008-08-28 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: >> * Much more detailed and inherently correct information can be gotten from >> >> git log -- libguile/ >> >> git log -- test-suite/ >> >> etc. >> >> * The ChangeLog duplicates the git log information if done correctly. Hence >> it requires double work for the

Re: RFD: please drop ChangeLog updates

2008-08-28 Thread dsmich
Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reasons: > > * Much more detailed and inherently correct information can be gotten from > > git log -- libguile/ > > git log -- test-suite/ > > etc. > > * The ChangeLog duplicates the git log information if done correctly. Hence > it

RFD: please drop ChangeLog updates

2008-08-28 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Reasons: * Much more detailed and inherently correct information can be gotten from git log -- libguile/ git log -- test-suite/ etc. * The ChangeLog duplicates the git log information if done correctly. Hence it requires double work for the committer. * Since updates to the ChangeLog