[Phpmyadmin-devel] changelog strcutre

Marc Delisle Marc.Delisle at cegepsherbrooke.qc.ca
Mon Feb 19 17:55:24 CET 2007


Michal Čihař a écrit :
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:02:35 -0500
> Marc Delisle <Marc.Delisle at cegepsherbrooke.qc.ca> wrote:
> 
>> Michal Čihař a écrit :
>>> On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:36:57 -0500
>>> Marc Delisle <Marc.Delisle at cegepsherbrooke.qc.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Good point. Here, cut&paste is useful!
>>>> Why, oh why can't we generate the ChangeLog from subversion's info?
>>> We definitely could :-). That's where I want to go - details are in
>>> subversion and summary is in changelog. When user comes and want to see
>>> what's new in this version, he can read changelog and see this quickly.
>>> This is impossible with current changelog.
>> Can subversion automatically generate a ChangeLog?
> 
> You can easily convert svn log to something what looks like ChangeLog,
> there are also some tools which do this, eg. svn2log[1], however I'm
> not sure whether it is possible to do this at commit time.
> 
> [1] http://www.core.com.pl/svn2log/

Well, this tool generates "gnu-style changelogs" which include the 
filenames :)

Ok, auto-generating is not a priority; also I like the fact that in the 
same revision, the changelog is updated because some users are looking 
at the latest changelog to see what happens.

Marc




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