Hi, this is an enhancement for sys-apps/openrc's live ebuild, to create a changelog from git's commit messages: --- sys-apps/openrc/openrc-9999.ebuild.old 2013-08-27 12:22:57.000000000 +0200 +++ sys-apps/openrc/openrc-9999.ebuild 2013-08-27 12:30:47.000000000 +0200 @@ -52,6 +52,13 @@ local ver="git-${EGIT_VERSION:0:6}" sed -i "/^GITVER[[:space:]]*=/s:=.*:=${ver}:" mk/git.mk || die fi + + if [[ ${PV} == 9999* ]] ; then + einfo "Producing ChangeLog from Git history ..." + pushd "${S}/.git" >/dev/null || die "Unable to chdir into ${S}/.git" + git log > "${S}"/ChangeLog || die "Unable to get logs from git" + popd >/dev/null || die "Unable to chdir back to previous directory" + fi # Allow user patches to be applied without modifying the ebuild epatch_user @@ -143,6 +150,10 @@ if use newnet; then dodoc README.newnet fi + + if [[ ${PV} == 9999* ]] ; then + dodoc ChangeLog + fi } add_boot_init() { Reproducible: Always
There are a couple of reasons I'm not really interested in this. First, you can view the changelog with git itself, or by going to https://github.com/OpenRc/openrc and viewing them there. Another thing to consider is that this changelog includes all changes from the very beginning of the history, so it will continually grow with each update. Another consideration is that if we do this for the live ebuild, we would need to do the same for each release, and there isn't an easy way to do that and have the ChangeLog included in the tarball. Also, in the future, please do not put patches inline in bug comments; they are useless there since they cannot be applied to the ebuild. Please attach them to the bug instead.
I will take a look at this again, reopening.
I have migrated to the newest git eclass. Since we use shallow clones by default now, this patch will not work. I don't know the exact reason for switching to shallow clones other than to save space in the distfiles directory and maybe to cut down on processing time since we do not download all of the history now. Feel free to reopen if you are still interested in this and you find another way to make it work.
