On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 09:30:38PM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Joe Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> | It might make the most sense to go the auto-generation route, and then
>
> ChangeLogs entries, when properly done (by people like RTH or Roger
> Sayle), carry highly valuable
Joe Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
| It might make the most sense to go the auto-generation route, and then
ChangeLogs entries, when properly done (by people like RTH or Roger
Sayle), carry highly valuable information about what the purpose of a
change-set is; not just the code. I'm of
Joe Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> It might make the most sense to go the auto-generation route, and then
> the standard for checkin comments would be to use the ChangeLog format.
> The ChangeLog can then be generated by just appending the entries
> together, and tacking the "legacy ChangeLog
Joe Buck dixit:
>On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 01:49:34PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>> I've always found the FSF's ChangeLog policy a bit weird
>> (for CVS projects - for RCS projects it's understandable).
>
>The ChangeLog fulfills a sometimes-ignored legal requirement of the GPL:
Sure, but oth
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 01:49:34PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> I've always found the FSF's ChangeLog policy a bit weird
> (for CVS projects - for RCS projects it's understandable).
The ChangeLog fulfills a sometimes-ignored legal requirement of the GPL:
> 2. You may modify your copy or
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> If you were to edit it, it would overwrite the property for that
> revision (which is what you want if you fix typos).
It is not what you want when you want to be able to reproduce from the
version control system the files that went into a particular r
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 21:20 +, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>
> > 4) [svn] Get rid of the forced "ChangeLog" entry
> >- writing (it's already the changeset's commit message)
> >- formatting (can't that be done automagically?)
> >- rotating (d
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> 4) [svn] Get rid of the forced "ChangeLog" entry
>- writing (it's already the changeset's commit message)
>- formatting (can't that be done automagically?)
>- rotating (d'oh)
>
> I've always found the FSF's ChangeLog policy a bit weird
>
Chris Jefferson dixit:
> As someone who just started submitting code, I'd say for a beginner the most
> important features of the version control system are (in particular relating
> to
> CVS)
4) [svn] Get rid of the forced "ChangeLog" entry
- writing (it's already the changeset's commit mess
