Rich Freeman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:24 AM, James <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > It there an easy, automated way to have this inforation on my system(s)
> > without extra keystrokes?
>
> Either wait for somebody to provide the old-style changelogs (some
> consider this critical, some consider this pointless - I'll admit I
> tend to fall in the latter), or just sync from git and run git
> log/whatchanged <path> or even tig <path>. That really gets you the
> same info and more, and lets you filter by path, file, and so on.
> Also, if a commit touched many packages at once it will show up in the
> log for each of the packages, but looking at it will also show you all
> the other related changes. It really is a much more data-rich view.
>
> While I do believe the ChangeLogs will show up again for those who
> prefer them, I think that taking a bit of time to learn to use git is
> going to make your life better in the long haul. I think that in time
> people will stop using ChageLogs.
So, do I need to change the rsync-type for gentoo o git, or how else do
I do this -- get the changelogs on my actual box? Now, I don't see a
.git under /usr/portage which makes sense, but is syncing done now by
git?
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