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Re: Automating the maintenance of the ChangeLog file
J William Piggott <elseifthen@gmx.com> writes:
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2018, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 2:29 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> * Zack Weinberg:
>>>> Specifically, I propose: Effective immediately, project policy
>>>> requires the Git commit message for each commit to end with the full
>>>> text of a traditional ChangeLog entry for that commit.
>>>
>>> How can I see what is part of the proposed commit (message) and what is
>>> not during patch review?
>>
>> If we take `git format-patch` as a baseline, that means the subject
>> line is the first line of the commit message, and everything in the
>> email body up to the first line of the actual diff is the commit
>> message. But sometimes one wants to say things in the email that
>> aren't going to go into the commit message. I don't have a good
>> suggestion for how to handle that, ...
>
> Git already has a way to do that. The submitter can write anything they want to
> between the '---' and 'diff ...'
>
> That is '---' ends the commit message.
Git also supports scissors (from git-mailinfo(1)):
--scissors
Remove everything in body before a scissors line. A line
that mainly consists of scissors (either ">8" or "8<") and
perforation (dash "-") marks is called a scissors line, and
is used to request the reader to cut the message at that
line. If such a line appears in the body of the message
before the patch, everything before it (including the
scissors line itself) is ignored when this option is used.
This is useful if you want to begin your message in a
discussion thread with comments and suggestions on the
message you are responding to, and to conclude it with a
patch submission, separating the discussion and the
beginning of the proposed commit log message with a scissors line.
This can be enabled by default with the configuration
option mailinfo.scissors.
git am also supports this.
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Tulio Magno