[SM-Discuss] Auto-generated HISTORY from `git commit` (was Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by George Sherwood (7041bfdaf256227abdacc42113e14388785aae43))

George Sherwood pilot at beernabeer.com
Thu Jun 11 12:57:23 EDT 2009


On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:49:47 -0700
Eric Sandall <eric at sandall.us> wrote:

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> George Sherwood wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:24:03 -0700
> > Eric Sandall <eric at sandall.us> wrote:
> > 
> >> 4.86BETA9 or 4.85BETA9? :)
> >>
> > Fat fingered.  Always believe DETAILS and HISTORY.  :) 
> 
> Has anyone thought anymore of having HISTORY auto-generated from `git
> commit`? It'd be nice to not have to enter the information twice. ;)
> That means our commit messages would have to be more verbose than they
> currently our. ;)
> 
> - ----
> Brief one-liner
> 
> Normal HISTORY entry
> - ----
> 
> e.g.
> - ----
> ekiga: Updated to 3.0
> 
> DETAILS: Updated to 3.0
> - ----
> 
> Then `git commit` would add all but the newline to HISTORY. I suppose
> we should move this to SM-Discuss? :)
> 
>
For me almost the opposite would be easier.  I wish it was possible to
generate my commit message from the quill generated HISTORY entry.
Almost all of my updates are doing using quill.  I just change the
wording a little bit, but it is nice to have the version already
there.  No entry mistakes.

George


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George Sherwood
Source Mage GNU/Linux Lead Developer
http://www.sourcemage.org
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