Re: ChangeLog entries and hg

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 12 April 2011 13:25, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:

> Then we would need to write commit log messages something like this:
>
> maint: stop maintaining ChangeLog files by hand.
> * foo.tmpl: New file.
> * Makefile.am (dist): Depend on ChangeLog.
> (ChangeLog): New target.
> ...
>
> There is no indenting in the log message, the first line is the
> summary, following lines are formatted much the same as current
> ChangeLog entries but should be wrapped at 72 columns to accommodate
> the leading tab that will be inserted by the hg log style when
> generating the ChangeLog file for the release.

One small safeguard against errors here is to use hg server hooks to
reject commit messages that have improperly formatted commit messages.
We might need some backup from Savannah people to do this. I'll write
the hook, should just be a bit of Python regexing...

- Jordi G. H.