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List:       freedesktop-xorg
Subject:    Re: [SCM TRANSITION] Re: Proposal: move Randr protocol and library
From:       "Dave Airlie" <airlied () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-04-19 9:35:13
Message-ID: 21d7e9970604190235o6ecb7dc1j4515278e46759e13 () mail ! gmail ! com
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> On Wednesday 19 April 2006 08:33, Egbert Eich wrote:
> > The only additional work required is to modify the ChangeLogs of each
> > driver. This can be automated by hacking the prepate-Changelog.pl scrip=
t.
> > Apart from this there is no more work than in a situation where we kept=
 a
> > number of drivers in a single module.
>
> If we're already talking about ChangeLogs: I don't really see the need fo=
r
> them anymore with a decent version control system as git. The ChangeLogs =
we
> have only duplicate the commit messages. Since git gives you atomic commi=
ts,
> it's more or less trivial to autogenerate a ChangeLog from the revision
> history.

I'm with Lars, also we'll just end up getting a lot of merge
collisions on the changelog, which really is no fun at all, and
probably out-of-order entries.. the git logs from the master tree
should be more than enough information....

Dave.

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