Stop the git abuse

[David Cantrell]

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 06:27:38AM -0400, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > 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.
> 
> I'm trying to backport most important changes to changelog from GIT
> but usually the GIT log is where I look to get the real changes...
> 
> I understand Changelog has a meaning and it would be really great to
> have these two in sync somehow auto-magically  generated :)

We automatically generate the spec file changelog block each time we make a
new release of anaconda.  Check out scripts/makebumpver in the anaconda git
repo on git.fedorahosted.org.

For us, the work is done in git.fedorahosted.org and we make .tar.bz2
releases of anaconda.  The resulting archive and spec file are then checked
in to pkgs.fedoraproject.org and built using fedpkg.  Same basic workflow
from when it was cvs as well.

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