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Re: GIT workflow


From: Colin Watson
Subject: Re: GIT workflow
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 12:24:15 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 09:26:36PM +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> В Thu, 28 Nov 2013 07:45:00 +0100
> "Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko" <address@hidden> пишет:
> > I don't like the idea of double work to essentially have 2 commit messages.
> > But it's possible to remove Changelog file. I'd like to know if any other
> > major gnu projects made the move.
> 
> Oh, I did not dare to ask but if you mention it :)
> 
> Yes, ChangeLog is the major source of merge conflicts and makes it
> impossible to cleanly cherry-pick patches for package maintenance.

gnulib (which we're already using elsewhere) has a "gitlog-to-changelog"
module that allows you to autogenerate ChangeLog; basically we'd move
ChangeLog to ChangeLog-2013 and then add a dist-hook that autogenerates
everything after that.  I quite like that approach, and it's used by
major GNU projects such as coreutils and diffutils.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       address@hidden



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