ChangeLog love

[Derek Atkins]

Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> writes:

> This will again require developers to think upfront about their commit
> messages. In itself a good thing, but harder to enforce. I refer back
> here to our long discussion on a branching strategy in git, in which
> we also had some potential workflow improvements that depended on
> every developer adhering to it.

I wonder if there is any way we could get gitolite to enforce the
process/standards we create?

> Other than that I like the idea of working with clean summary merge
> commit messages.  We can't do this until we're pure git based though.

That's okay, we should be pure git before 2.6.

> So for now I have limited myself to extend the ChangeLog generation
> code in the top level makefile so it now works from both an svn or a
> git repository.
>
> We can revisit the ChangeLog revamp when we're pure git. Thanks all
> for your feedback.
>
> Geert

-derek

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