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

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...

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? :)