On Wednesday, December 28, 2016 3:38:58 PM CET Simon Josefsson wrote: > Tim Ruehsen <tim.rueh...@gmx.de> writes: > >> Thanks for the hint -- see cfg.mk for how it is done in libidn2, i.e.: > >> > >> ChangeLog: > >> git2cl > ChangeLog > >> > >> tarball: > >> ! git tag -l $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION) | grep $(PACKAGE) > /dev/null > >> $(MAKE) ChangeLog distcheck > >> > >> The idea is that on 'make release', the ChangeLog is re-generated from > >> git commit logs and will be included in the tarball. This broke because > >> ChangeLog had been accidentally been committed at some point. > > > > The wget method has the advantage that you don't have to remember 'make > > release', it is regenerated automatically when you create the tarball > > (make > > dist, make distcheck). > > True, but does it matter? I suspect this can be fixed if it is > important too. > > > Another advantage is that wget doesn't need get2cl - which might not be > > available on e.g. Solaris. > > E.g. 'gengetopt' is not available there and it was not possible for me to > > built it (some auto* stuff was not compatible). That means I can't build > > libidn2 there at the moment. IMO, such dependencies are a waste of time > > since they just solve trivial tasks, basically nothing. > > Neither git2cl nor gengetopt should be needed for normal users. If > there is ever any developer who wants to be build libidn2 from git on > solaris, maybe we can reconsider. > > > Maybe it is possible to use gnulib's git-to-changelog instead of git2cl ? > > Yeah, I would like that. I recall there being some differences between > them, and that git-to-changelog demanded some particular way to format > git commit logs which aren't always followed. We should probably still > go with the git-to-changelog approach though.
- git2cl mangles non-ASCII characters (e.g. my family name) - git2cl has a nice (GNU'ish) output while - as you say - gitlog-to-changelog needs the committer to take care about the message format. If you could fix git2cl, I would be happy with it :-). Maybe the formatting code could go from git2cl into gnulib one day... Regards, Tim
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