On 11/02/2016 10:55 AM, James Youngman wrote: > On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 6:04 PM, Bernhard Voelker > <m...@bernhard-voelker.de> wrote: >> On 10/03/2016 04:30 PM, Steve wrote: >>> The entire ChangeLog-2013 content is duplicated in ChangeLog >> >> Fixed with >> >> [PATCH 2/3] maint: remove ChangeLog-2013 from distribution tarball > > Are you sure this is the right fix? I thought that the ChangeLog we > generated from the git log was supposed to only go back a while > (perhaps only to 2013) leaving the older content in the ChageLog-2013 > file. > > IIRC the idea behind this is that we could commit fixes to > ChangeLog-2013 (i.e. the historic ChangeLog entries) file directly, > without needing to repeatedly hack on build-aux/git-log-fix.
It is exactly like that: looking at 'build-aux/gen-changelog.sh', you'll see that the final changelog is built from git log since 2014, and ChangeLog-2013 is simply concatenated. Thus, there's no need to ship that file in addition. Have a nice day, Berny
