Re: Commit messages and ChangeLog (Re: [PHP-DEV] ChangeLog)
| From: | Pierre Joye | Date: | Fri, 28 May 2010 23:43:31 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Commit messages and ChangeLog (Re: [PHP-DEV] ChangeLog) | ||
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2010/5/29 Derick Rethans <derick@php.net>:
> On Fri, 28 May 2010, Pierre Joye wrote:
>
>> 2010/5/28 Johannes Schlüter <johannes@schlueters.de>:
>>
>> > Is anybody using this file? If this is thee case could somebody then
>> > make sure it's being updated (and maybe take care of
>> > ChangeLog-200[6-9].gz being created) else I'd suggest dropping them. An
>> > outdated file might be confusing for users expecting content like we
>> > have in the NEWS file there.
>>
>> I do, what's about only changing how it is generated to generated
>> changes since last release instead?
>>
>> I'd to add that unless we add everything in the NEWS file, the
>> ChangeLog remains the only way to have a list of all changes (without
>> doing manually).
>
> Isn't that what "svn log -v" now provides? The format is slightly
> different of course, but it does provide the same info.
By "without doing it manually", I meant when one fetches a release or
a snapshot.
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Pierre
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