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

Seth Alan Woolley seth at swoolley.homeip.net
Fri Jun 12 01:52:16 EDT 2009


Why not discontinue adding to HISTORY and put all history in the git commit 
message.  The reason why is that gaze HISTORY can simply get it from git.  
If the package has the git commit it came from somewhere it can be sure it 
has the correct git log too.

Why bloat our downloads for every change?

Every git clone will get the history, and we can move the history files to a 
part that doesn't get downloaded each time and make gaze HISTORY grab the 
rest of the changes from the moved location of the HISTORY files in git.

The GPL does require we include changes with source downloads (as per git), 
but the actual download most users will get need not include all that extra 
data which will never be used -- it's the "binary".

Somebody might delete the HISTORY files to see how much space we could save 
to see if it's worth it.

Seth

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 07:16:46AM +0200, Andra?? 'ruskie' Levstik wrote:
> > 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. ;)
> 
> I'm not a fan of this but as an option to those that do want it I would
> say feel free to do so at your clone level. Project-wide no thanks. I
> prefer commit messages to be short and a quick reference while I can
> write novels in HISTORY.
> 
> My 0.02???
> 
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