Re: ChangeLog suggestion

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Sat, 26 Apr 2003 09:34:25 -0700 (PDT)


On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, John Bradford wrote:
>
> The changelogs are generated by BitKeeper - couldn't we simply include
> a link that will let anybody[1] access the relevant changesets?

Well, yes, the changelogs are generated by BitKeeper, but what gets fed
into bitkeeper is controlled by some scripts I wrote, which are the ones
that take the email and munge it into a readable format etc. So by the
time the thing hits my BK repository, the email headers will all have been
thrown away, except for "From: " and "Subject: ". So BK never sees the
full email.

(Even my scripts don't see the full email a large percentage of the time:
I end up prettifying the emails for actual application by first removing
things like "Hi Linus, please apply this" etc which are pointless in the
changelog).

Linus

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