Any plans to deprecate changelog?

[Colin Guthrie-6]

Hi,

Are there any plans to deprecate your manual ChangeLog editing?

The reason I ask is that I was trying to cherry-pick a few patches from
-good master to the 10-13 release and tall the cherry-picks failed due
to errors merging in the ChangeLog file.

Quite frankly by manually editing the ChangeLog with every commit it
pretty much makes one of the useful features of git (cherry-pick) quite
unwieldy.

I'd imagine this is just fall out from CVS conversion etc. and that the
practices will change eventually and that you'll probably adopt a
similar module ot other FDO projects in which the ChangeLog is generate
from the git commit short-log at release time/tarball generation.

Cheers

Col

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[Sebastian Dröge-7]

Am Sonntag, den 08.02.2009, 15:20 +0000 schrieb Colin Guthrie:

> Hi,
>
> Are there any plans to deprecate your manual ChangeLog editing?
>
> The reason I ask is that I was trying to cherry-pick a few patches from
> -good master to the 10-13 release and tall the cherry-picks failed due
> to errors merging in the ChangeLog file.
>
> Quite frankly by manually editing the ChangeLog with every commit it
> pretty much makes one of the useful features of git (cherry-pick) quite
> unwieldy.
>
> I'd imagine this is just fall out from CVS conversion etc. and that the
> practices will change eventually and that you'll probably adopt a
> similar module ot other FDO projects in which the ChangeLog is generate
> from the git commit short-log at release time/tarball generation.

The changelog will only be changed at release time now and the content
will be generated from the GIT log.

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[Jan Schmidt-6]

On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 16:42 +0100, Sebastian Dröge wrote:

> Am Sonntag, den 08.02.2009, 15:20 +0000 schrieb Colin Guthrie:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Are there any plans to deprecate your manual ChangeLog editing?
> >
> > The reason I ask is that I was trying to cherry-pick a few patches from
> > -good master to the 10-13 release and tall the cherry-picks failed due
> > to errors merging in the ChangeLog file.
> >
> > Quite frankly by manually editing the ChangeLog with every commit it
> > pretty much makes one of the useful features of git (cherry-pick) quite
> > unwieldy.
> >
> > I'd imagine this is just fall out from CVS conversion etc. and that the
> > practices will change eventually and that you'll probably adopt a
> > similar module ot other FDO projects in which the ChangeLog is generate
> > from the git commit short-log at release time/tarball generation.
>
> The changelog will only be changed at release time now and the content
> will be generated from the GIT log.

Which is actually what happened with Saturday's 0.10.13.2
gst-plugins-good pre-release tarball.

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[Colin Guthrie-6]

'Twas brillig, and Jan Schmidt at 09/02/09 10:17 did gyre and gimble:

> On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 16:42 +0100, Sebastian Dröge wrote:
>> Am Sonntag, den 08.02.2009, 15:20 +0000 schrieb Colin Guthrie:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Are there any plans to deprecate your manual ChangeLog editing?
>>
>> The changelog will only be changed at release time now and the content
>> will be generated from the GIT log.
>
> Which is actually what happened with Saturday's 0.10.13.2
> gst-plugins-good pre-release tarball.

Nice :) "Good" timing then (sorry for the bad pun!)

I should have just shipped the 0.10.13.2 tarball I guess.. would have
saved the cherry-picks!!

Live and learn :)

Col


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