[Asterisk-Dev] New ChangeLog in CVS HEAD Asterisk tree

[Steve Kann]

Kevin P. Fleming wrote:

> I have also added a GNU-style ChangeLog file to actually start keeping 
> track of individual changes made in the tree; this is somewhat of an 
> experiment, since I don't know how easy this is going to be to 
> maintain when the bulk of our changes come in via patches. There is 
> also some overlap with the CVS commit messages, obviously, but at 
> least this file is kept in the tree itself. For now I am going to make 
> my entries using Emacs' 'changelog' mode which makes it painless to 
> add/update entries; for those of you using other editors you may have 
> to find a similar tool in that editor or just copy-and-paste an 
> existing entry to add yours to the top of the file.


Have you considered just using cvs2cl, or a similar tool for SVN?  These 
basically take the CVS commit messages, and make a ChangeLog out of 
them.  cvs2cl is actually pretty smart in taking multiple non-atomic 
commits from CVS, and figuring out how to re-assemble them into a single 
changelog entry:  with svn, it's easier..

-SteveK