I tweaked my earlier change to make the turn-over between the ChangeLog files the end of 2013. I hope this makes things simpler for you.
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Bernhard Voelker <m...@bernhard-voelker.de> wrote: > On 08/23/2014 01:07 PM, James Youngman wrote: >> I don't think we should worry about "correcting" git log entries prior >> to 2009 when generating ChangeLog. >> >> For your (I hope) convenience I just pushed a change which splits the >> 1987-2008 ChangeLog entries out into a separate file, ChangeLog-2008. >> The naming follows the convention used in coreutils. We can leave >> that file as-is, and concentrate on just generating the ChangeLog >> file. >> >> If you need help with anything to do with this, or if you have >> questions, please just let me know. > > Thanks, I am almost ready - although there is a local event today > I cannot miss, so I have to leave the PC now. > > My approach was to leave everything until 2014-08-21 in a ChangeLog.old > file (by renaming), and only generating future commits. > OTOH, I've found a few commits which were missing in the old ChangeLog, > so I wanted to fix that in a separate commit before introducing > gitlog-to-changelog. > > Thanks & have a nice day, > Berny -- -- This email is intended solely for the use of its addressee, sender, and any readers of a mailing list archive in which it happens to appear. If you have received this email in error, please say or type three times, "I believe in the utility of email disclaimers," and then reply to the author correcting any spellings (and, optionally, any incorrect spellings), accompanying these with humorous jests about the author's parentage. If you are not the addressee, you are nevertheless permitted to both copy and forward this email since without such permissions email systems are unable to transmit email to anybody, intended recipient or not. To those still reading by this point, the author would like to apologise for being unable to maintain a consistent level of humour throughout this disclaimer. Contents may settle during transit. Do not feed the animals.
