On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:00:36 +1300 Kent Fredric <kentfred...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 27 October 2011 06:46, Andreas K. Huettel <dilfri...@gentoo.org> > wrote: > > > > > 2) I'd like to suggest that for changelogs that grow beyond a > > certain size (e.g. profiles/ChangeLog) > > the file is "rotated" similar to /var/log logfiles. I.e. the > > current file is renamed with a date extension and a > > new file is started. This has the benefit that the archived file is > > static and will never be retransmitted > > by rsync. > > > > For rotation, an arbitrary line-length offset would not be advisable > in my opinion. It would need to split at a logical place like before > a "release" entry. > > As for codifying this, applying software to automate splitting > changelogs in this manner could be initially challenging as I've seen > a few Changelogs with really inconsistent style at the bottom of them. How many really long changelogs do we have now? Maybe we should just split them by hand. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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