[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] remove main CHANGELOG file

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Kim Phillips,

In message <20100505160607.99edd83d.kim.phillips at freescale.com> you wrote:
>
> > How would you try such identification?
> 
> it appears that the granularity of CHANGELOG updates is equal to that
> of VERSION, PATCHLEVEL, and EXTRAVERSION assignments in the root
> Makefile; so presumably one can refer to those instead.

This doesn't workl reliably. Too often companies insert their own
version information there, which sometimes is completely unrelated to
what we use.

> For exact per-export granularity, one can do something like this:
> 
> cd u-boot
> echo '$Format:%H$' > snapshot.commit
> git add snapshot.commit && git commit -m 'add snapshot.commit file'
> echo 'snapshot.commit' > .git/info/attributes
> git archive --format=tar --prefix=${PREFIX}/ <commit> ...
> 
> ...the resultant tarball's snapshot.commit file will contain the value
> of the sha id representing commit <commit>.
> 
> for more info, see the gitattributes manpage and the list of
> placeholders in the PRETTY FORMATS section of the git log manpage.

Ah!  That's interesting. Another git feature I didn't know yet.

/me is reading the documentation.

Thanks a lot for this interesting tip!

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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