Re: [libvirt] Switch from CVS to GIT is done

Mark McLoughlin wrote: > On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 16:19 +0200, Daniel Veillard wrote: >> yeah, I think moving ChangeLog to ChangeLog.CVS and generating the >> logs starting from today at "make dist" time is probably the best, it >> will avoid copying over redundant informations. > > Cool. > >> On the other hand we >> should try to keep the git log output coherent with the previous >> format. > > FWIW, I think it's best to switch to a new format that better suits git. > > e.g. "git log --pretty=oneline" can be very useful, but only where > people properly summarise the commit on the first line. If we used the > typical ChangeLog format, it would be useless. Also, we don't need the > date and author information twice. > > II think git commit messages generally more genuinely useful information > than a ChangeLog entry - it seems to encourage people to more fully > explain what they're doing. > > If we switch formats, 'git log --stat' is fine for Changelog - you get > author, date, files changed etc. Hi Mark, What do you think of coreutils' logs? It's generated and still ChangeLog-conforming, yet with an added one-line summary and sometimes (for larger changes) more prose: http://meyering.net/code/tmp/coreutils-ChangeLog