[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] remove main CHANGELOG file

Wolfgang Denk
2010-05-05T06:54:01Z

Dear Kim Phillips,

In message <20100504192544.6506945d.kim.phillips@freescale.com> you wrote:
>
> > > It is assumed that this file's only purpose is to serve non-git users
> > > downloading u-boot project source in the form of a tarball release. If
> > > that is the case, then the generation of the CHANGELOG file should occur
> > > at tarball release generation time, and not consume duplicate history,

Can you recommend a way how such auto-generation / inclusion would be
done?

Currently I'm using something like this:

$ V=2010.03
$ PREFIX=u-boot-${V}
$ git archive --format=tar --prefix=${PREFIX}/ v${V} | \
> bzip2 -v9 >~/tmp/${PREFIX}.tar.bz2

How could this be made to include a non-git-controlled CHANGELOG?

> > Slowing things down? C'me on.
>
> maybe not git grep performance-wise (yet), but on a
> frequently-occurring search term, when we have to visually sift through
> and page down through a large number of CHANGELOG hits (that invariably
> show up first), then yes, I consider that a development-time barrier.

So what about git performance? A "grep foobar CHANGELOG" is
significantly faster than a "git log --grep=foobar", isn't it?

> > NAK. My position about these files has not changed.
>
> Please reconsider: u-boot has no need to be 'special' in this area, and
> this file's continued existence is a lingering harassment for
> developers such as myself.

Harassment? Strong words. I am seriously listening to your arguments,
but so far I feel that there is a lot of emotion in your message but
only few arguments I can follow.

I can understand that you see little use in this file, and even that
occasionally it comes into your way.

On the other hand, I regularly use this file, because it speeds up my
work.

In addition to the arguments already mentioned here is another reason
why I would like to keep this file in place: Quite often we have to
work with copies of the U-Boot source tree that do not contain any
good information about which version they might have been derived
from; the CHANGELOG at least gives an idea about the time frame.

How would you try such identification?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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