Re: sim: replacing ChangeLog files with online git logs
Eli Zaretskii via Gdb <[email protected]>
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> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2021 11:26:11 -0500 > From: Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > > > So people who don't have Git will be left without the logs? I'm not > > sure I'm okay with that. > > what value are people actually pulling from these ? we aren't talking > about user-focused NEWS, we're talking about developer-focused ChangeLog. This has been beaten to death in various forums, including GNU internal ones. the conclusion was that some people want that, and some developers are not always on-line and with Git repo handy. > the hard & bikeshed part is what form does the log take. do you just want > the default `git log` output ? There's a Gnulib script which will produce the form that matches the ChangeLog format.