[U-Boot-Users] Proposed CHANGELOG Generation Helpers

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Jon,

in message <E1GYBd8-0001Gp-Kd at jdl.com> you wrote:
> 
> I was wondering if either of these two commands comes
> close to being a "replacement" for automatically
> generating the CHANGELOG in a format that is close
> to what you would like:

Thanks a lot for the suggestions.

> If either of these is close, it might be a pretty simple mod
> to, say, the "git shortlog" script to make it more acceptable.

A variation of (2) is perfectly fine with me:

	git log | egrep -v '^Merge'

[I think the commit ID should be included.]


So since I seem to be the only person on this  planet  who  likes  to
have this CHANGELOG file, and it has caused so much trouble already I
suggest the following procedure:

(1) I will freeze the current setup and probably even release  it  as
    U-Boot 1.1.5 (mostly to feed all those FTP-only downloaders).

(2) rename CHANGELOG into CHANGELOG.OLD, and start  a  new  CHANGELOG
    which  gets  automatically generated using the command above or a
    variation thereof.

    Note: nobody needs to take care of this file. It is purely for my
    own private needs, and I will manage it on my own. Everybody else
    can just ignore the existence of this file.

(3) I will merge your and Matthew McClintock's 85xx  which  (from  my
    point  of  view)  suffer  mostly  just from the missing CHANGELOG
    entries.

(4) Remaining issues like coding  style  cleanup  etc.  can  be  then
    sorted out in the merged trees. If I should see bigger problems I
    will create branches that can be used as reference.

Is this acceptable to you and everybody else?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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