On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 22:23 -0400, Tristan Van Berkom wrote: > On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <beh...@behdad.org> wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I first wrote Makefile.am magic for Pango to generate ChangeLog from git on > > demand. Those macros have been modified and gathered in > > http://live.gnome.org/Git/ChangeLog to only generate ChangeLog for "make > > dist". I wonder what people actually want to have, so I can work on > > canonical macros to copy across projects (and eventually find a better way > > to distribute). Pros and cons: > > > > Personally, I prefer maintaining an actual revisioned ChangeLog file, simply > because I like having the ChangeLog as a part of the project data, revisioning > tools come and go, projects get exported and imported, but the ChangeLog > always remains in the repository or published tarball.
I recall someone once mentioning (excuse my butchering the correct terms) a git merge strategy that makes it easier to maintain a ChangeLog and not have to fight with it when merging branches. Who was that person, and can they please attach the information to http://live.gnome.org/Git/ChangeLog Thanks John _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list