(fwd) Re: (fwd) Bug#75657: I wish cvs2cl could make ChangeLogs like the wine ones

Hi Avery, FYI.

/me waits for the patch :)

so long

                                        yours,
                                        peter

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From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@galois.collab.net>
Subject: Re: (fwd) Bug#75657: I wish cvs2cl could make ChangeLogs like the wine ones
To: Peter Palfrader <ppalfrad@cosy.sbg.ac.at>
Cc: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@worldvisions.ca>
Date: 30 Oct 2000 08:53:48 -0600
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Hmm. I could add such a feature, but...

I have to admit it seems of extremely dubious value to me. It defeats
one of the purposes of ChangeLogs, which is to be able to manually
search for a file by name and see what changed. Now you can't just
search for "foo.c", you have to also search for "*.c". (See
http://www.red-bean.com/kfogel/changelogs.html for a more detailed
discussion of this issue -- I just created that page, inspired by your
mail. :-) )

I confess this sounds like a case of the software author trying to
dictate policy, but it's a question of what I'm going to spend my time
on. If Avery Pennarun or someone else submits a patch providing the
feature (toggled on by a new option), then that would be different, of
course.

Thoughts?,
-Karl

Peter Palfrader <ppalfrad@cosy.sbg.ac.at> writes:
> Hi Karl,
>
> This item has been filed as a wishlist bug in the Debian Bug Tracking
> System[0] as bug number 75657[1].
>
> What do you think about the idea?
>
> | From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@worldvisions.ca>
> | Subject: Bug#75657: I wish cvs2cl could make ChangeLogs like the wine ones
> | Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 12:39:13 -0700
> | Reply-To: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@worldvisions.ca>,
> | 75657@bugs.debian.org
>
> | Package: cvs2cl
> | Version: 0.0.2.29-1
> | Severity: wishlist
> |
> | Hi,
> |
> | Occasionally in the changelog for the "wine" package you see an entry like
> | this:
> |
> | * include/*.h, dlls/comctl32/*.c:
> | Eric Kohl <ekohl@abo.rhein-zeitung.de>
> | Added xxx_Unregister() functions to all common controls.
> |
> | I like the include/*.h, dlls/comctl32/*.c notation when several files in a
> | directory have changed.
> |
> | Is there any chance of getting that kind of behaviour as an option in a
> | future version of cvs2cl?
> |
> | Thanks,
> |
> | Avery
>
> yours,
> peter
>
> 0. http://bugs.debian.org/
> 1. http://bugs.debian.org/75657
>
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