prepare-Changelog.pl for git

Donnie Berkholz dberkholz at gentoo.org
Tue Jul 11 11:27:35 PDT 2006


Zephaniah E. Hull wrote:
> Consensus on IRC is to just drop the ChangeLog files and, on release, do
> something along the lines of 'git log > ChangeLog'.
> 
> It just doesn't make sense to enter the same information twice,
> especially when git can generate the second file for us pretty much
> instantly.

Whenever you commit to a repo, please double-check whether there's a
Makefile.am rule to generate the ChangeLog on `make dist`. If not,
delete the ChangeLog and copy the rule over from libX11.

Thanks,
Donnie

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