Re: [LIP] Elegant changelog generation in Emacs
alephnull-osWhnui/M7A+7tqfrXfpIp/[email protected] (Alok G. Singh)
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On 18 Jul 2007, [email protected] wrote: > However, the default format adds only a date-based > entry and doesn't store the time at which the entry was made. I was > wondering whether someone who is using the system could tell me > whether there is a way to alter this behaviour with Emacs' existing > ChangeLog system, >From the documentation for add-log-time-format ,---- | | add-log-time-format is a variable defined in `add-log.el'. | Its value is | add-log-iso8601-time-string | | | Documentation: | Function that defines the time format. | For example, `add-log-iso8601-time-string', which gives the | date in international ISO 8601 format, | and `current-time-string' are two valid values. | | You can customize this variable. `---- Setting this to current-time-string seems to do what you want. > Also, is there a general custom followed for ChangeLogs in the FOSS > world? From what I have seen of application ChangeLogs, they seem to > vary for most software. Most of these formats are side-effects of external utilities that parse the changelog (to summarise in a release note, for instance). Keeping to the default Emacs format has been sufficient for my (albeit modest) requirements. -- Alok If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. -- Louis Armstrong ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/