Stop the git abuse

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 12:21 +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On 05/21/12 10:23, 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.
> 
> Temporary?  git commit messages disappearing is news to me ...
> 
> One could generate %changelog from the git commit log to avoid the
> duplication.  Needs quite some through though.  For starters you
> probably don't want 'git commit -m "fix build"' show up in %changelog.

Again we're repeating the discussion...

Mandriva's mechanism is built to ignore commits that start with
SILENT: . So if you  do 'git commit -m "SILENT: fix build"' , it won't
show up in the RPM changelog.

All this is in the archives. Several times. It's not helping anyone to
keep floating the idea, if someone wants it to happen they should
probably actually write some code.
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