Re: [linuxtools-dev] Getting Rid of Changelogs

2011-08-23 Thread sami wagiaalla
I would be in favour of this but would like to have the ChangeLog for git enhanced to be able to create the ChangeLog data during the commit, skipping the user name and date line. That would be nice :) ___ linuxtools-dev mailing list linuxtools-dev@

Re: [linuxtools-dev] Getting Rid of Changelogs

2011-08-22 Thread Jeff Johnston
On 08/19/2011 01:36 PM, Andrew Overholt wrote: So my suggestion is we get rid of Changelogs, follow the format outlined on the wiki [2] and referenced by Andrew's message [1], and perhaps add a requirement to have a bullet for each modified file. I'd be fine with this since many of our projects

Re: [linuxtools-dev] Getting Rid of Changelogs

2011-08-19 Thread Andrew Overholt
> So my suggestion is we get rid of Changelogs, follow the format > outlined on the wiki [2] and referenced by Andrew's message [1], and > perhaps add a requirement to have a bullet for each modified file. I'd be fine with this since many of our projects don't actually use ChangeLog files anyway.

[linuxtools-dev] Getting Rid of Changelogs

2011-08-19 Thread sami wagiaalla
I have been thinking about this for a while, but was prompted by Andrew's email [1] to send a message to the list. Changelogs are pain to deal with, they don't automerge, and the authorship information is redundant. On the other hand I find them useful in two ways: they force me to go over m