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Re: [setup] Makefile.am patches


On Feb 16 21:12, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 16/02/2015 20:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Feb 16 20:34, Achim Gratz wrote:
> >>Corinna Vinschen writes:
> >>>
> >>>I'm rather confused now.  So I don't need git-merge-changelog for
> >>>automation and I don't need gitlog-to-changelog if I keep the ChangeLog
> >>>logs.  If I don't need any one of them, what *do* I need?
> >>
> >>You need one _or_ the other, but not both.  You want to keep the
> >>ChangeLog file, so you don't auto-extract from the git commit messages,
> >>but install the merge driver.
> >
> >Still confused.  I want to keep the ChangeLog file *and* automate
> >creating the entries in the file from the git log message, preferredly
> >nicely formatted, not that weird one line log.  It seems
> >gitlog-to-changelog can create such entries:
> >
> >$ gitlog-to-changelog --strip-tab --no-cluster --strip-cherry-pick --append-dot --format='%n%b%n' --strip-cherry-pick -- -n 1
> >2015-02-16  Achim Gratz  <...>
> >
> >	* Makefile.am (setup-src): Create file list for archive from
> >	git-ls-files instead of cvs and create an XZ compressed archive.
> >
> >The question is, can this be automated so that a commit automatically
> >adds the entry to the ChangeLog file and commit the ChangeLog file at
> >the same time?  Or is there some problem with that approach?
> 
> If you are using gitlog-to-changelog, I think usually it would be run from a
> 'make dist'-hook, and ChangeLog would not be under source control.

make dist?  That's not exactly with each commit, IIUC...
Sigh, ok, scratch the idea.


Thanks,
Corinna

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