On 5/18/06, Trent Piepho <xyzzy at speakeasy.org> wrote: > On Thu, 18 May 2006, Stephen Thorne wrote: > > 2) Mandate that ChangeLog formatted messages must be put into the > > darcs 'long comment', and the person integrataing the patch into the > > upstream repo copies those messages out of the commit messages into > > the ChangeLog, and records that as a new patch. > > Is there some sort of commit hook that can do this automatically? > > I have used CVS where a commit script would automatically create entries in a > changelog file. > > None of the projects I work on now have a change log file that developers need > to update. As you've found, it doesn't work for concurrent development, and > besides, that's what the versioning system is for. Of course Vanilla has a > history of thowing away the version history every so often, so all those darcs > comments are just going to get lost. That's my fundamental fear. I think maybe generating the ChangeLog at releasetime would be the best plan... -- Stephen Thorne "Give me enough bandwidth and a place to sit and I will move the world." --Jonathan Lange