Re: [webkit-dev] changelogs: a reprise

2010-01-28 Thread Chris Jerdonek
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:55 AM, David Kilzer ddkil...@webkit.org wrote: (2) Consider phasing in support for an alternate workflow where new ChangeLog entries for the next commit are stored separately from the versioned ChangeLog files -- perhaps in individual .changelog files for Subversion

Re: [webkit-dev] changelogs: a reprise

2010-01-28 Thread David Kilzer
On Thu, January 28, 2010 at 4:10:11 AM, Chris Jerdonek wrote: On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:55 AM, David Kilzer wrote: (2) Consider phasing in support for an alternate workflow where new ChangeLog entries for the next commit are stored separately from the versioned ChangeLog files -- perhaps

Re: [webkit-dev] changelogs: a reprise

2010-01-27 Thread Tor Arne Vestbø
Tor Arne Vestbø wrote: Here's a wip patch to update-webkit's Git part I've been running locally for a few days now, it has basic resolve-ChangeLogs-support, as well as mirror support: http://gist.github.com/287646 https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34206 tor arne

Re: [webkit-dev] changelogs: a reprise

2010-01-26 Thread David Kilzer
On Mon, January 25, 2010 at 10:35:00 PM, Chris Jerdonek wrote: I was reading through the old I HATE CHANGELOGS messages from August: https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2009-August/thread.html The discussion attracted a lot of interest and ideas, but it looks like it died out

Re: [webkit-dev] changelogs: a reprise

2010-01-26 Thread David Levin
I think someone already wrote this for you: http://ivanz.com/2009/03/19/git-automatic-smart-changelog-merging/ which referrs to http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=lib/git-merge-changelog.c;h=b9ab42947b2590b31d69544d566e1f6b04a90100;hb=HEAD I was using this for a while

Re: [webkit-dev] changelogs: a reprise

2010-01-26 Thread Chris Jerdonek
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:55 AM, David Kilzer ddkil...@webkit.org wrote: I think I mentioned this before, but for git users, this can be solved in the short term by a merge driver that uses resolve-ChangeLogs (once it knows how to be invoked by git as a merge driver): This seems like a good

Re: [webkit-dev] changelogs: a reprise

2010-01-26 Thread Eric Seidel
Soon after that I wrote bugzilla-tool (now called webkit-patch). Adam Barth and I learned that webkit-patch made it easy to just save patches to bugs, using post and apply-attachment. That was easier than bothering with branches in many cases (at least branches containing ChangeLogs). It's even

[webkit-dev] changelogs: a reprise

2010-01-25 Thread Chris Jerdonek
I was reading through the old I HATE CHANGELOGS messages from August: https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2009-August/thread.html The discussion attracted a lot of interest and ideas, but it looks like it died out without reaching any conclusion. It seems like the tools around

Re: [webkit-dev] changelogs: a reprise

2010-01-25 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Jan 25, 2010, at 10:39 PM, Eric Seidel wrote: On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Eric Seidel esei...@google.com wrote: Re: #1 I strongly support a wrapper around commit. That's what webkit-patch land is supposed to be. It allows us to do all sorts of pre-commit checks! The check could