Re: git log - changelog

2010-09-06 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
On 6 Sep 2010, at 12:47, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 05:20:30AM CEST: On 6 Sep 2010, at 03:44, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Except that the autotools project logs contain lots of S-O-B entries which explicitly do not have that particular meaning. :-/ I

Re: git log - changelog

2010-09-06 Thread Jim Meyering
Gary V. Vaughan wrote: On 6 Sep 2010, at 12:47, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 05:20:30AM CEST: On 6 Sep 2010, at 03:44, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Except that the autotools project logs contain lots of S-O-B entries which explicitly do not have that

Re: git log - changelog

2010-09-05 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 11:23:57PM CEST: The git pages are clear that S-O-B has project-dependent interpretation. Coreutils currently doesn't even use it (the only people with commit privileges to the master coreutils.git have FSF copyright, and it is assumed that

Re: git log - changelog

2010-09-05 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Gary, * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 05:20:30AM CEST: On 6 Sep 2010, at 03:44, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Except that the autotools project logs contain lots of S-O-B entries which explicitly do not have that particular meaning. :-/ I suppose we can create an annotation

git log - changelog [was: [PATCH] Path conversion documentation]

2010-09-02 Thread Eric Blake
[adding bug-gnulib] On 09/02/2010 03:00 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: IF we want to use gitlog to create the ChangeLog, then either of these is fine with me. However, see below. iii) fix the gitlog entries -- if that's even viable? I don't think (iii) will work. You can play all sorts

Re: git log - changelog

2010-09-02 Thread Charles Wilson
On 9/2/2010 5:08 PM, Eric Blake wrote: On 09/02/2010 03:00 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: Two people worked on a single patch, or someone submitted it, and then one of the people with commit access modified the patch slightly. The GCS says you should do this, in the ChangeLog:

Re: git log - changelog

2010-09-02 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/02/2010 03:16 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: On 9/2/2010 5:08 PM, Eric Blake wrote: On 09/02/2010 03:00 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: Two people worked on a single patch, or someone submitted it, and then one of the people with commit access modified the patch slightly. The GCS says you should