On 4/30/11 3:05 PM, Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote: > On 14:28 Sat 30 Apr , Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: >> If you read the last paragraph in my suggestion was to cycle the logs... > Maybe this would be better together with a mechanism (automatic?) to keep the > complete ChangeLogs (as they are now) somewhere (but not in the main > tree). Sometimes, full history/ChangeLog can be useful, eg. when you > want to see quickly how old a package in the tree is, or find bug numbers of > fixes you may want to recheck etc etc.
Seconded. I sometimes read entire ChangeLogs, for example for abandoned packages or packages I suspect to be abandoned, sometimes I read them for fun, and so on. I'm fine with shipping a trimmed down versions to users, but I think the full version must be easy to access. A possible solution would be to truncate the logs in the cvs->rsync migration.
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