[libvirt] [PATCH 1/3] maint: Stop generating ChangeLog from git

[Ján Tomko]

On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 01:24:37PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
>On Tue, 2019-04-02 at 12:43 +0200, Ján Tomko wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 06:50:51PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
>> > +If you're interested in the full list of changes made to libvirt since
>> > +the project was started, you can clone the git repository from
>> > +
>> > +  https://libvirt.org/git/libvirt.git
>> > +
>> > +and browse them locally using your favorite git history viewer or,
>> > +alternatively, browse them online at
>> > +
>> > +  https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=log
>>
>> And this points the developer to the libvirt.git, which is already
>> linked in README-hacking
>
>I didn't consider the mention in README-hacking, though I'd say this
>is slightly different because 1) it also points to the Web-browsable
>version of the git log and 2) people looking for the ChangeLog will
>probably not go poking at README-hacking of all places.
>
>> I'd rather drop the ChangeLog file completely
>
>I personally don't have a problem with the idea, but I seem to recall
>a ChangeLog being required by the GNU coding standard, which we are
>at least formally following; I expect moving away from it to be an at
>least somewhat controversial change...
>

Okay, let's look into that later.

>So perhaps we could get rid of the 12+ MiB of garbage right now, and
>then suggest dropping these remaining dozen lines as a follow up? :)

Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko at redhat.com>

Jano
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