Dnia 2014-09-15, o godz. 15:55:35 "Anthony G. Basile" <bluen...@gentoo.org> napisał(a):
> On 09/15/14 15:30, William Hubbs wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 09:53:43AM +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: > >> On 14-09-2014 16:56:24 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > >>> Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> napisał(a): > >>>> So, I don't really have a problem with your design. I still question > >>>> whether we still need to be generating changelogs - they seem > >>>> incredibly redundant. But, if people really want a redundant copy of > >>>> the git log, whatever... > >>> I don't want them too. However, I'm pretty sure people will bikeshed > >>> this to death if we kill them... Especially that rsync has no git log. > >>> Not that many users make real use of ChangeLogs, esp. considering > >>> how useless messages often are there... > >> Council had some discussions on this topic: > >> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20111108-summary.txt > >> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20111011-summary.txt > >> > >> Conclusion back then was that ChangeLog files need to stay. > > I would have no problem with the council revisiting/changing this. > > > > I tend to agree that the ChangeLogs in the portage tree will be > > obsoleted when we switch to git because git's logging facilities are > > much easier to use than those in CVS. Not to mention how much smaller > > the portage tree would be without ChangeLogs. > > If the argument is that there are no Changelogs in rsync, then let's > write git hooks to generate them when the repository is mirrored to the > rsync host. The only problem I see is with this is then adding > ChangeLog to the manifest and gpg signing it which has to be done at the > developer's side. But, I think the tree that users get from rsync > should have the logs. Having *both* a ChangeLog file and git log is > redundant. Can't we just kill rsync then? The whole ChangeLog seems to take more effort than the actual benefit it gives. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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