This is after talking about egencache --update-changelog improvements needed in #gentoo-infra, during turning on the functionality. egencache needs the ability to exclude some commits and directories from updating changelogs. 1. --changelog-exclude-commit 56bd759df1d0c750a065b8c845e93d5dfa6b549d Should exclude the initial commit to repo/gentoo.git, as otherwise it will be in EVERY single ChangeLog. It should support any argument(s) that is a valid references, and resolve them to an actual commithash to exclude. It should be valid to specify MULTIPLE times, with one reference per instance. 2. --changelog-exclude-path dir/ --changelog-exclude-path dir/file --changelog-exclude-path **/files/digests-* (FUTURE) Should explicitly exclude that directory and file from being included the list of changed files for changelog entries. If this means no files are changed for a given entry, the entry should probably be omitted. It should be valid to specify MULTIPLE times, with one path fragment per instance. Path fragments shall be taken relative to the base directory of the repo. Wildcards may be considered in future.
