From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NzYXQ-0003aB-Mk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:55:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5DAE4E0827; Wed, 7 Apr 2010 16:55:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from p3plsmtpa01-02.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (p3plsmtpa01-02.prod.phx3.secureserver.net [72.167.82.82]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2653CE0A8D for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2010 16:55:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 18931 invoked from network); 7 Apr 2010 16:55:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (77.83.158.75) by p3plsmtpa01-02.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (72.167.82.82) with ESMTP; 07 Apr 2010 16:55:24 -0000 From: Markos Chandras To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [git migration] The problem of ChangeLog generation Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 19:54:11 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.2 (Linux/2.6.32-zen6-night-elf; KDE/4.4.2; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201004071954.11243.hwoarang@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: c38749d1-fd3b-45c1-be44-1207f43b8b32 X-Archives-Hash: 5e69d30aeddcf02d29588ac77b500775 On Tuesday 06 April 2010 05:13:02 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: Just a question: Why do we even need to care about ChangeLog files? Can't we just use the git commit message to generate logs? E.g run a script on server side which will read the whole git shortlog and generate a changelog every $timeframe? -- Markos Chandras (hwoarang) Gentoo Linux Developer Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org