Re: Moving GLib and GTK+ to git

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 03/31/2009 03:05 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote:

> Some things that we need to sort out include
>
> ChangeLog: The git way of doing things is to do small commits, with
> meaningful commit messages, and forego a separate ChangeLog file.
> Everybody who I talked to about this recommended going this way, so
> I'd say we should follow this. I'll add a final note to the current
> ChangeLog indicating this.
>
> I'll figure out what to do about autogenerating ChangeLogs in release
> tarballs in time for the next releases...

Feel free to copy from Pango.  Pango only has one ChangeLog though.  You may 
want to consolidate gtk's many ones now.


> The one deviation in this from our current ChangeLog entry style is
> that it moves the bug reference from the short explanation to the main
> description.
> I'm not entirely sure which is better here, a little experimentation
> may be needed to come up with the best style.

For Pango I continue to use the bug title line as my short summary.  If 
needed, I retitle the bug first.  For example:


commit cf13cde8a80c9a1a9d4c9e343c634350da59991a
Author: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>
Date:   Thu Mar 26 01:03:43 2009 -0400

    Bug 571291 – Unicode 5.1 support in pango - Indic Lanuages

    Add char class for new characters.
    Patch from Rahul Bhalerao.

commit 477747bc1ef1078b06c4e1c615a1a912e6ada299
Author: Sebastian Dröge <slomo circular-chaos org>
Date:   Mon Mar 23 19:16:58 2009 -0400

    Bug 576298 – Fails to link pango-view if --without-x is specified but 
cairo has X11 support

commit c82e8ad9dda142b1acfbcb86054750e082600893
Author: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>
Date:   Mon Mar 16 17:25:33 2009 -0400

    Bug 547963 – man page for pango-view

commit 69e1f7921525c2849d937b5a822475007a4f9a2f
Author: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>
Date:   Mon Mar 16 16:57:58 2009 -0400

    Bug 502804 – pango-view or pangocairo-view option to annotate

    Added --annotate.

    Also fixes:
    Bug 502801 – per-backend pango-view options


behdad