ChangeLog stuff (Was Re: hal: Branch 'master')

[Dan Nicholson]

On 4/9/07, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> (Meant to send this to the whole list)
>
> On 4/9/07, Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka at web.de> wrote:
> >
> > I see also the problem with the size of the log. May we can limit the
> > changelog to changes since the last release or from the last 6 or 12 months.
> > More is IMO not really needed. I take a look at this.
> >
> > Btw. do you generate the NEWS file manually or is there any other way?
>
> You can use git-describe to find the most recent tag. That would allow
> the ChangeLog to be generated between the previous two tags. Getting
> this two work in a Makefile could be tricky, but here's the gist of it
> (git-1.5.0.5):

Also, if you want to see some intense methods of generating the
ChangeLog from git-log, here's what's done in cairo:

http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=blob;hb=HEAD;f=ChangeLog.mk

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Dan