[PATCH] Update contrib.texi

Carlos O'Donell carlos@redhat.com
Tue Feb 4 17:49:00 GMT 2014


On 02/04/2014 04:19 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 03:31:04AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> since we retain authorship info in git, it should be easy to script it now 
>> right ?
> 
> I think we already script it (via ChangeLog instead of git history)
> for the release notes when we come up with a list of thanks for the
> release.  contrib.texi has (and I believe is always meant to have) a
> more personal touch.

I agree. The personal touch is important.

FYI. For the release note we use git history e.g.
git shortlog --summary -w72 glibc-(Previous X.Y tag).. | sed -e 's,^.*\t,,g'

Cheers,
Carlos.



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