[augeas-devel] Re: [RFC] Dynamic ChangeLog generation script

[Jeff Schroeder]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 4:21 AM, Jim Meyering <jim at meyering.net> wrote:
> "Jeff Schroeder" <jeffschroed at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Jeff Schroeder <jeffschroed at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Nicolas Valcarcel
>>> <nvalcarcel at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi!
>>>>        I have noticed that the ChangeLog entry on the source it's empty, it
>>>> will be really cool if we get track of the changes in there so everyone
>>>> knows what's new, so if you are going to change things please use it!
>>>
>>> hg log works pretty well for now :)
>>
>> A post on planet.gnome.org told me about an auto-changelog generation
>> script hooked into 'make distcheck' for gnome-games. Looking at how they
>> did it found these two interesting bits of code:
>> http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnome-games/trunk/Makefile.am?r1=7698&r2=7722
>> http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnome-games/trunk/svn2cl.xsl?view=markup&pathrev=7724
>
> Many people want a ChangeLog file, so since I prefer not to
> duplicate that manually in the log and in a version-controlled
> file, I now generate ChangeLog (for distribution tarballs only)
> from git logs:
>
> For an example, look at coreutils.  It uses gnulib's gitlog-to-changelog
> script, along with this rule from coreutils/Makefile.am:
>
> gen_start_date = 2008-02-08
> .PHONY: gen-ChangeLog
> gen-ChangeLog:
>        if test -d .git; then                                           \
>          $(top_srcdir)/build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog                   \
>            --since=$(gen_start_date) > $(distdir)/cl-t;                \
>          rm -f $(distdir)/ChangeLog;                                   \
>          mv $(distdir)/cl-t $(distdir)/ChangeLog;                      \
>        fi
>
> There's room for improvement.  Two things on my list:
>  - attribute more than one "author" for a single change
>  - provide a mechanism to correct in the generated ChangeLog
>      errors in the git logs.

Hey jim, something along these lines is what we settled on. Did you
miss this? http://hg.et.redhat.com/misc/augeas?cs=cd28767d190d

David said "hg log --style changelog" was enough.

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