Re: `make dist` fails with current git

2021-10-14 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Wed, Oct 13, 2021, at 2:32 PM, Nick Bowler wrote: > On 2021-10-13, Zack Weinberg wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 13, 2021, at 2:11 PM, Nick Bowler wrote: >>> I think this happened because your CI system has done a shallow clone. >>> So the changelog generation failed because the git log is incomplete.

Re: `make dist` fails with current git

2021-10-13 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2021-10-13, Zack Weinberg wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2021, at 2:11 PM, Nick Bowler wrote: >> I think this happened because your CI system has done a shallow clone. >> So the changelog generation failed because the git log is incomplete. > > I did a --single-branch clone, but not a shallow one.

Re: `make dist` fails with current git

2021-10-13 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Wed, Oct 13, 2021, at 2:11 PM, Nick Bowler wrote: > I think this happened because your CI system has done a shallow clone. > So the changelog generation failed because the git log is incomplete. I did a --single-branch clone, but not a shallow one. Shouldn't the trunk be self-contained? zw

Re: `make dist` fails with current git

2021-10-13 Thread Nick Bowler
On 13/10/2021, Zack Weinberg wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2021, at 11:54 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >> On Wed, 13 Oct 2021, Zack Weinberg wrote: >>> >>> Looks like some kind of problem with automatic ChangeLog generation? >> >> To me this appears to be the result of skipping an important step in >>

Re: `make dist` fails with current git

2021-10-13 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Wed, Oct 13, 2021, at 11:54 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Wed, 13 Oct 2021, Zack Weinberg wrote: >> >> Looks like some kind of problem with automatic ChangeLog generation? > > To me this appears to be the result of skipping an important step in > what should be the process. It seems that

Re: `make dist` fails with current git

2021-10-13 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 13 Oct 2021, Zack Weinberg wrote: Looks like some kind of problem with automatic ChangeLog generation? To me this appears to be the result of skipping an important step in what should be the process. It seems that there should be a requirement that 'make distcheck' succeed prior to