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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] history files in git devel branches
  • Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:27:13 -0700

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Treeve Jelbert wrote:
> I am maintaintaing a devel branch where upstream releases devel snapshots
> almost every week.. Official release occur every six months or so.
>
> Under our current policy, the history will contain 6 months of noise for
> the
> various snapshots, with occasional changes regarding dependencies or build
> options.
>
> I suggest that for this situation, the git branch should only record the
> important changes, and only add the version update when the offical release
> occurs and things are merged to the master branch.
> Many projects have a rolling, incremental changelog which is used in this
> way.
> The full change history is available from git anyway.
>
> Any comments on this?

So long as, at some point, the HISTORY file contains all the pertinent
changes (DEPENDS, BUILD, etc.) and at least the latest version bump. It
might be good to know when a version bump required a dependency change,
but we can get that from the commit log.

- -sandalle
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