Re: [HACKERS] Patch to git_changelog for release note creation

2011-03-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > I wrote: > > So I'd vote for having both --master-only and its inverse > > --ignore-master, but I'm not sure we need anything more general > > than that. > > On second thought ... one big problem with --master-only is that > it's useful only to the extent that you trust git_chang

Re: [HACKERS] Patch to git_changelog for release note creation

2011-03-15 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: > So I'd vote for having both --master-only and its inverse > --ignore-master, but I'm not sure we need anything more general > than that. On second thought ... one big problem with --master-only is that it's useful only to the extent that you trust git_changelog to have matched up master

Re: [HACKERS] Patch to git_changelog for release note creation

2011-03-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
Robert Haas wrote: > > Bottom line: ?I need to start the release notes today --- I can hack my > > own version and we can revisit this later, which I am afraid will be in > > one year, or we can just add what I have and we can keep hacking on it > > as needed. > > The release note generation is ti

Re: [HACKERS] Patch to git_changelog for release note creation

2011-03-15 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas writes: > No, he wants to exclude things that were back-patched. But I agree > it's kind of grotty. Imagine you are preparing release notes for a > minor release. Now you will want all the back-branch commits, but not > the ones that were only committed to master. I think rather th

Re: [HACKERS] Patch to git_changelog for release note creation

2011-03-15 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Robert Haas wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >> > Bruce Momjian writes: >> >> I would like to apply the attached patch to git_changelog for use in >> >> creating the major release notes. ?I specifically added thes

Re: [HACKERS] Patch to git_changelog for release note creation

2011-03-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
Bruce Momjian wrote: > Bottom line: I need to start the release notes today --- I can hack my > own version and we can revisit this later, which I am afraid will be in > one year, or we can just add what I have and we can keep hacking on it > as needed. Oh, one more thing. pgcvslog was added to

Re: [HACKERS] Patch to git_changelog for release note creation

2011-03-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
Robert Haas wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > > Bruce Momjian writes: > >> I would like to apply the attached patch to git_changelog for use in > >> creating the major release notes. ?I specifically added these flags: > > > >> ? ? --author-after ?Show author after the co

Re: [HACKERS] Patch to git_changelog for release note creation

2011-03-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian writes: > > I would like to apply the attached patch to git_changelog for use in > > creating the major release notes. I specifically added these flags: > > > --author-after Show author after the commit > > --master-only Show commits made exclusively to

Re: [HACKERS] Patch to git_changelog for release note creation

2011-03-15 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian writes: >> I would like to apply the attached patch to git_changelog for use in >> creating the major release notes.  I specifically added these flags: > >>     --author-after  Show author after the commit >>     --master-only   Sho

Re: [HACKERS] Patch to git_changelog for release note creation

2011-03-15 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian writes: > I would like to apply the attached patch to git_changelog for use in > creating the major release notes. I specifically added these flags: > --author-after Show author after the commit > --master-only Show commits made exclusively to the master branch > --r

[HACKERS] Patch to git_changelog for release note creation

2011-03-14 Thread Bruce Momjian
I would like to apply the attached patch to git_changelog for use in creating the major release notes. I specifically added these flags: --author-after Show author after the commit --master-only Show commits made exclusively to the master branch --reverse-order Show commits in reve