On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 10:39:19PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> there's lot of duplication between various ChangeLogs and the git
> commit
> message. This I have written a script to update the various ChangeLogs
> based on the git history. There's even some checks to properly dispatch
> the commits in the various ChangeLogs.
> We'll just have to run "maint-tools/update-changelos" once before each
> release to update all the ChangeLogs. This will avoid many conflicts on
> ChangeLogs... and it will be one hassle less for contributors.
I definetly agree with your goal, to reduce duplication of changelog
information. But if we're already changing this, let's consider a
revolution instead of reformation ;) Do we really need to use the GNU
ChangeLog format? Why don't we just switch to the default format of
git log like e.g. linux does it?
I have no strong opinion on this. On one side I dislike the need for a
tabulation before everything except the header, on the other hand I like
the header which takes only one line. :)