Fwd: [gentoo-dev] [git migration] The problem of ChangeLog generation

[Jacob Godserv]

This message recently appeared on gentoo-dev, and I thought it to be
very, very interesting. We might save quite a lot of I/O by removing
ChangeLogs from our portage snapshots.

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From: Robin H. Johnson <rob...@gentoo.org>
Date: Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 18:21
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [git migration] The problem of ChangeLog generation
To: gento...@lists.gentoo.org

On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 09:06:24AM -0400, Richard Freeman wrote:
> Why not just get rid of the in-tree Changelogs entirely?  The scm
> logs already document this information, so why have it in a file?
The major concern with this is users that are NOT connected to the
internet always.
If you are connected, you can just use --exclude Changelog in your rsync
options.

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Are you ready?

[Viridior]

I saw this, and I find it interesting. I should have most of this
weekend to work on Neuvoo, I'll see if I can include this into my
squashfs roll-ups and I'm sure it will save me at least a meg or two.

On Apr 6, 9:32 pm, Jacob Godserv <jacobgods...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This message recently appeared on gentoo-dev, and I thought it to be
> very, very interesting. We might save quite a lot of I/O by removing
> ChangeLogs from our portage snapshots.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Robin H. Johnson <robb...@gentoo.org>
> Date: Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 18:21
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [git migration] The problem of ChangeLog generation
> To: gentoo-...@lists.gentoo.org
>
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 09:06:24AM -0400, Richard Freeman wrote:
> > Why not just get rid of the in-tree Changelogs entirely?  The scm
> > logs already document this information, so why have it in a file?
>
> The major concern with this is users that are NOT connected to the
> internet always.
> If you are connected, you can just use --exclude Changelog in your rsync
> options.
>
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> Robin Hugh Johnson
> Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead

> E-Mail     : robb...@gentoo.org