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From: Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: ChangeLog generation
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:26:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739b4hbjq.fsf@ft.bewatermyfriend.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120124190616.44ae8cc0@pws-pc.ntlworld.com> (Peter Stephenson's message of "Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:06:16 +0000")

Peter Stephenson wrote:
[...]
> We still need some way of associating the mailing list posting with the
> change set, which is a bit of a puzzle since you are likely to commit it
> to your local repository first.  It doesn't need to be in comments (I
> couldn't see any way of updating them when pushing), it could be in some
> other metadata, so there may well be some workaround.  We're sunk
> without it, though, since tracing changes back to the discussion about
> it on the mailing list is crucial for working out the intention behind
> changes.
[...]

This sounds like a job for `git-notes'¹², which is additional data you
can stick to an object (like a commit) without changing the object
itself (leaving the hash-sums of the history intact).

My experience with them is limited, but that shouldn't be the biggest
problem. ;)

Regards, Frank

¹ <http://schacon.github.com/git/git-notes.html>
² <http://progit.org/2010/08/25/notes.html>


  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-25  0:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-09 14:11 Next release Peter Stephenson
2011-12-09 16:37 ` Bart Schaefer
2011-12-09 16:42   ` Peter Stephenson
2011-12-12 16:28     ` _arguments and state_descr (Re: Next release) Bart Schaefer
2011-12-12 16:46       ` Peter Stephenson
2011-12-12 18:15         ` Bart Schaefer
2011-12-09 19:50 ` Next release Frank Terbeck
2011-12-10 17:19   ` Peter Stephenson
2011-12-10 19:20     ` Frank Terbeck
2011-12-10 19:46       ` Peter Stephenson
2011-12-10 19:55         ` Frank Terbeck
2012-01-24 13:03         ` ChangeLog generation (was: Re: Next release) Frank Terbeck
2012-01-24 19:06           ` Peter Stephenson
2012-01-25  0:26             ` Frank Terbeck [this message]
2012-01-24 19:40           ` Bart Schaefer
2012-01-25  0:59             ` ChangeLog generation Frank Terbeck
2011-12-09 23:38 ` Next release Phil Pennock

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