Re: RFD: please drop ChangeLog updates

2008-08-31 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Neil Jerram [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually, perhaps it would be nicer to put both those notes in a top level file called ChangeLog, rather than in HACKING. Yes, that's the most obvious place to put information about ChangeLogs. Other ChangeLogs can be renamed as you suggested.

Re: RFD: please drop ChangeLog updates

2008-08-30 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ludovic Courtès escreveu: Then I guess I'm happy to abolish ChangeLogs. Two questions remain: 1. Should we remove ChangeLog files from the repo? 2. Should we generate ChangeLogs for releases? I'd say yes to (1) and no to (2). That would

Re: RFD: please drop ChangeLog updates

2008-08-30 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/8/30 Ludovic Courtès [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ludovic Courtès escreveu: Then I guess I'm happy to abolish ChangeLogs. Two questions remain: 1. Should we remove ChangeLog files from the repo? 2. Should we generate ChangeLogs for releases? I'd

Re: RFD: please drop ChangeLog updates

2008-08-29 Thread Sergey Poznyakoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ha escrit: Guile is distributed as a tarball, not a git repo. Does it make sense to create the ChangeLog from the git log at make dist time? FWIW, there is a gnulib module for that purpose: gitlog-to-changelog. Once you import it to the project, the following Makefile

Re: RFD: please drop ChangeLog updates

2008-08-29 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Ludovic Courtès escreveu: Hi, Sergey Poznyakoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha escrit: Guile is distributed as a tarball, not a git repo. Does it make sense to create the ChangeLog from the git log at make dist time? FWIW, there is a gnulib module for that purpose:

Re: RFD: please drop ChangeLog updates

2008-08-29 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi, On Fri 29 Aug 2008 12:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: That said, the ideal would be something like `add-change-log-entry' that operates on Git logs instead of ChangeLogs, but there doesn't seem to be anything like this. DVC is said to support things like that, but it

RFD: please drop ChangeLog updates

2008-08-28 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Reasons: * Much more detailed and inherently correct information can be gotten from git log -- libguile/ git log -- test-suite/ etc. * The ChangeLog duplicates the git log information if done correctly. Hence it requires double work for the committer. * Since updates to the

Re: RFD: please drop ChangeLog updates

2008-08-28 Thread dsmich
Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reasons: * Much more detailed and inherently correct information can be gotten from git log -- libguile/ git log -- test-suite/ etc. * The ChangeLog duplicates the git log information if done correctly. Hence it requires