Re: [HACKERS] Adding commit details to SGML release notes

2015-08-28 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 12:23:30AM +0200, Andres Freund wrote: > On 2015-08-28 17:49:35 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > If we _don't_ do that, how do you easily get those lines into the > > release notes? I can't imagine how hard it was for Andres to add that > > text to the 9.5 release notes: >

Re: [HACKERS] Adding commit details to SGML release notes

2015-08-28 Thread Andres Freund
On 2015-08-28 17:49:35 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > If we _don't_ do that, how do you easily get those lines into the > release notes? I can't imagine how hard it was for Andres to add that > text to the 9.5 release notes: Formatting the log wasn't the hard part, that was finding out which item

Re: [HACKERS] Adding commit details to SGML release notes

2015-08-28 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian writes: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 05:32:38PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> Personally I find that truncated output to be pretty unreadable, and >> would strongly object to changing git_changelog so that that was the only >> possible format. However, I have no objection to making it an o

Re: [HACKERS] Adding commit details to SGML release notes

2015-08-28 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 05:32:38PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera writes: > > Bruce Momjian wrote: > >> To simplify the creation of the release note with the commit tag as an > >> SGML comment, I think src/tools/git_changelog should be modified to > >> output this string. The format "tru

Re: [HACKERS] Adding commit details to SGML release notes

2015-08-28 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera writes: > Bruce Momjian wrote: >> To simplify the creation of the release note with the commit tag as an >> SGML comment, I think src/tools/git_changelog should be modified to >> output this string. The format "trunc" feature was added in git 1.8.3. >> Is that old enough for every

Re: [HACKERS] Adding commit details to SGML release notes

2015-08-28 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Bruce Momjian wrote: > To simplify the creation of the release note with the commit tag as an > SGML comment, I think src/tools/git_changelog should be modified to > output this string. The format "trunc" feature was added in git 1.8.3. > Is that old enough for everyone? Hmm, that's pretty new