[gst-devel] Any plans to deprecate changelog?

[Sebastian Dröge]

Am Sonntag, den 08.02.2009, 15:20 +0000 schrieb Colin Guthrie:
> Hi,
> 
> Are there any plans to deprecate your manual ChangeLog editing?
> 
> The reason I ask is that I was trying to cherry-pick a few patches from 
> -good master to the 10-13 release and tall the cherry-picks failed due 
> to errors merging in the ChangeLog file.
> 
> Quite frankly by manually editing the ChangeLog with every commit it 
> pretty much makes one of the useful features of git (cherry-pick) quite 
> unwieldy.
> 
> I'd imagine this is just fall out from CVS conversion etc. and that the 
> practices will change eventually and that you'll probably adopt a 
> similar module ot other FDO projects in which the ChangeLog is generate 
> from the git commit short-log at release time/tarball generation.

The changelog will only be changed at release time now and the content
will be generated from the GIT log.
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