Dne St 5. května 2010 08:54:01 Wolfgang Denk napsal(a): > Dear Kim Phillips, > > In message <20100504192544.6506945d.kim.phill...@freescale.com> you wrote: > > > > It is assumed that this file's only purpose is to serve non-git users > > > > downloading u-boot project source in the form of a tarball release. > > > > If that is the case, then the generation of the CHANGELOG file > > > > should occur at tarball release generation time, and not consume > > > > duplicate history, > > Can you recommend a way how such auto-generation / inclusion would be > done? > > Currently I'm using something like this: > > $ V=2010.03 > $ PREFIX=u-boot-${V}
git log > CHANGELOG > $ git archive --format=tar --prefix=${PREFIX}/ v${V} | \ > tar -r CHANGELOG or something ? > > bzip2 -v9 >~/tmp/${PREFIX}.tar.bz2 > > How could this be made to include a non-git-controlled CHANGELOG? > > > > Slowing things down? C'me on. > > > > maybe not git grep performance-wise (yet), but on a > > frequently-occurring search term, when we have to visually sift through > > and page down through a large number of CHANGELOG hits (that invariably > > show up first), then yes, I consider that a development-time barrier. > > So what about git performance? A "grep foobar CHANGELOG" is > significantly faster than a "git log --grep=foobar", isn't it? > > > > NAK. My position about these files has not changed. > > > > Please reconsider: u-boot has no need to be 'special' in this area, and > > this file's continued existence is a lingering harassment for > > developers such as myself. > > Harassment? Strong words. I am seriously listening to your arguments, > but so far I feel that there is a lot of emotion in your message but > only few arguments I can follow. Yup > > I can understand that you see little use in this file, and even that > occasionally it comes into your way. > > On the other hand, I regularly use this file, because it speeds up my > work. > > In addition to the arguments already mentioned here is another reason > why I would like to keep this file in place: Quite often we have to > work with copies of the U-Boot source tree that do not contain any > good information about which version they might have been derived > from; the CHANGELOG at least gives an idea about the time frame. > > How would you try such identification? > > Best regards, > > Wolfgang Denk _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot