[postgis-devel] Please keep ChangeLog updates small

[Sandro Santilli]

The diff text for revision 14553 did not make it into postgis-tickets
due to its size, about 3.7MB (see bounced mail headers below).

The problem is in generation of the ChangeLog file, which was
completely rewritten rather than appended-to:

  git-svn-id: http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/branches/2.2@14553 b70326c6-7e19-0410-871a-916f4a2858ee
  ChangeLog | 121268 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------------------------------------------------
  1 file changed, 52025 insertions(+), 69243 deletions(-)

This is how a ChangeLog update should look instead (no deletions!):

  git-svn-id: http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/trunk@9602 b70326c6-7e19-0410-871a-916f4a2858ee
  ChangeLog | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
  1 file changed, 57 insertions(+)

In order to help reducing the odds of fully rewriting the file,
a ChangeLog makefile rule was provided. Does it not work the same
for all of us ?

Regina, did you use the Makefile rule for r14553 ?
I noticed the new ChangeLog contains CRs,
is this a case of a missing svnprop ?

--strk;


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> Date: Tue,  5 Jan 2016 18:34:49 -0800
> From: Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us>
> To: postgis-tickets at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: r14553 - update release notes in prep for 2.2.1 release
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> Author: robe
> Date: 2016-01-05 18:34:48 -0800 (Tue, 05 Jan 2016)
> New Revision: 14553
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> Modified:
>    branches/2.2/ChangeLog
>    branches/2.2/NEWS
>    branches/2.2/doc/release_notes.xml
> Log:
> update release notes in prep for 2.2.1 release