Re: [Evolution-hackers] Request for improved svn commit messages

2007-10-08 Thread Frederic Crozat
Le samedi 06 octobre 2007 à 00:46 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan a écrit : Nice discussion guys. Lets go this way then. - Sync ChangeLogs with commit logs - Why instead of what in ChangeLogs It is just that I never saw a reason for myself and If people see a value out of it, lets

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Request for improved svn commit messages

2007-10-05 Thread Srinivasa Ragavan
Oh, I remember a thread on d-d-l where there was discussion on two ChangeLogs (one part of tree and other part of svn logs). Btw, I'm one of those who use those short logs for svn commits and I know a few people who copy ChangeLogs to svn commit logs. In anycase, I really dont know/see what is

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Request for improved svn commit messages

2007-10-05 Thread Harry Lu
When we began to make Evolution patches 5 years ago, we were required to make the commit changlog the same as the one in ChangeLog by Evolution maintainers. So we have been doing copypaste for all the time. Maybe this has been changed. But I still prefer this old way. This makes the viewcvs

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Request for improved svn commit messages

2007-10-05 Thread Frederic Crozat
Le vendredi 05 octobre 2007 à 13:36 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan a écrit : Oh, I remember a thread on d-d-l where there was discussion on two ChangeLogs (one part of tree and other part of svn logs). Btw, I'm one of those who use those short logs for svn commits and I know a few people who copy

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Request for improved svn commit messages

2007-10-05 Thread Matthew Barnes
On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 10:38 +0200, Frederic Crozat wrote: Second, being self-contained (and therefore, ease of use for external maintainers / lurkers / packagers / release-team). You are only thinking of svn log when using viewcvs. But if you are, just like me, subscribed to svn-commit mailing

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Request for improved svn commit messages

2007-10-05 Thread Srinivasa Ragavan
Nice discussion guys. Lets go this way then. - Sync ChangeLogs with commit logs - Why instead of what in ChangeLogs It is just that I never saw a reason for myself and If people see a value out of it, lets help them then. -Srini. On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 10:16 -0400, Matthew

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Request for improved svn commit messages

2007-10-05 Thread Andre Klapper
ahoj, though srini has already done a good(TM) decision on this, my two cents: Am Freitag, den 05.10.2007, 10:38 +0200 schrieb Frederic Crozat: Second, being self-contained (and therefore, ease of use for external maintainers / lurkers / packagers / release-team). You are only thinking of svn

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Request for improved svn commit messages

2007-10-05 Thread B S Srinidhi
Hi, On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 00:46 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote: Nice discussion guys. Lets go this way then. - Sync ChangeLogs with commit logs - Why instead of what in ChangeLogs Awesome!! This would also (incredibly) reduce the effort in generating the NEWS files too... :)