Re: ChangeLog

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at cs dot toronto dot edu>]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Nadim Shaikli wrote:

> --- Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > Log Message:
> > Alkarouri: Please log your changes in ChangeLog.
>
> Actually no need - the 'cvs2cl.pl' script will generate you
> a ChangeLog at any point you like from the CVS log messages
> themselves (so make sure you include relevant and thoughtful
> CVS log messages :-).

You are right. But:

* In ChangeLog people write for example what the applied patch is
supposed to do, while in commit log they just write which patch
has been applied.

* ChangeLog is something that goes into distribution, so this way
we should automate ChangeLog generation from CVS, which I don't
know how to do this in a clean way.  The other way is to update
ChangeLog from cvs2cl.pl output manually before releases.   I
choose this way for now.

> Try the script locally to see what I mean.

I know what it does ;)....  Ok, changed BiCon to take this
approach.

Thanks,
behdad

>   http://www.red-bean.com/cvs2cl
>
> Salam.
>
>  - Nadim