On 30-04-2011 11:46:37 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote: > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/misc-files/changelog/index.html > > There doesn't seem to be a common opinion on what the policy for > ChangeLog entries is. See: > > http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_f829da2375f1ceab766a800913cc4998.xml > > I propose a simple new text: "Every commit should have an entry in > ChangeLog." If we eventually autogenerate them from git logs this would > happen any way (unless some kind of filtering system is in the middle) > so we could already start now. I think it's better to have more than > less information available to users.
Because everytime we need something more sophisticated people come up with the holy git grail, here is the script to generate a echangelog-style ChangeLog from CVS, right here, right now. It's a naive implementation, but the output shows the differences between the committed log, and what would be generated from CVS. (The usernames could be looked up easily, but I was too lazy to do that.) People can use this to judge if "autogeneration from VCS" is a good thing or not. My conclusion is that you probably want to maintain the ChangeLog manually. I also attached a sample of the script output for net-p2p/transmission for convenience. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level
cvsps2changelog.sh
Description: Bourne shell script
ChangeLog.gen
Description: GENbank data
