Stop the git abuse

Ian Kent raven at themaw.net
Mon May 21 09:57:37 UTC 2012


On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 10:23 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 05/21/2012 09:56 AM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 07:07:56PM +0200, Remi Collet wrote:
> >>> And definitvely, for me, (and probably only for me), git is really
> >>> not a good tool for spec maintenance.
> >>
> >> Not duplicating the changelog would help.  There's little reason to
> >> have a changelog in git which is then manually copied into
> >> %changelog.
> >
> > +1, for me - GIT is the authority for change logs, not SPEC...
> 
> -1 changelogs are manually written documents and source files.
> A database's (git), temporary meta information is irrelvant.

+1, the changelog is available to the user through an rpm query which is
essential and useful to covey what has has been done.

Ian



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