Roland Bauerschmidt wrote: > I have thought about that before. However, I meant to implement it this > way: Parse debian/changelog locally, and use new entries as default for > Subversion's changelog. It would prevent debian/changelog to be > cluttered with entries such as "forgot to add file foo last time; really > add it now". (Yes, you could also clean debian/changelog up before > uploading.) I've done this for years using the attached script (which will work with both svn and cvs (less well), and can also tag releases). -- see shy jo
#!/bin/sh -e # Commit changes, using the current changelog as the message. # If $1 is "release", the package is also tagged for release. if [ -d CVS ]; then PROG=cvs elif [ -d .svn ]; then PROG=svn else echo "not in a cvs or subversion directory" >&2 exit 1 fi echo "Committing with $PROG ..." if [ "$1" = "release" ] && [ -e debian/changelog ]; then if head -1 debian/changelog | grep -q UNRELEASED; then echo "Changelog says it's UNRELEASED, bud." exit 1 fi version=`dpkg-parsechangelog | grep Version: | cut -f 2 -d ' '` $PROG commit -m "releasing version $version" elif [ "$PROG" = svn ]; then # use new part of changelog as commit entry MSG=$(svn diff debian/changelog | grep '^\+ ' | sed 's/^+//') if [ -n "$MSG" ]; then $PROG commit -m "$(svn diff debian/changelog | grep '^\+ ' | sed 's/^+//')" else $PROG commit -m "`dpkg-parsechangelog | grep '^ '`" fi else # cvs is too slow for that $PROG commit -m "`dpkg-parsechangelog | grep '^ '`" fi if [ "$1" = "release" ]; then # Generate the tag. This is compatable with the tag cvs-buildpackage # uses except for debian native packages. newversion=`expr $version : '[0-9]:\(.*\)'` 2>/dev/null || true if [ "$newversion" ]; then version=$newversion fi if [ -d CVS ]; then # escape tag for cvs if [ "`expr $version : '.*-.*'`" -gt 0 ]; then tag="debian_version_$version" else tag="version_$version" fi tag=`echo "$tag" | tr . _` cvs tag -f $tag elif [ -d .svn ]; then tag="$version" echo "svn copy $(svnpath) $(svnpath tags)/$tag" if ! svn copy $(svnpath) $(svnpath tags)/$tag -m "tagging version $version"; then echo "svn mkdir $(svnpath tags)" svn mkdir "$(svnpath tags)" -m "create tag subdirectory" echo "svn copy $(svnpath) $(svnpath tags)/$tag" svn copy $(svnpath) $(svnpath tags)/$tag -m "tagging version $version" fi fi fi
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