[postgis-devel] Please keep ChangeLog updates small

[Paragon Corporation]

I changed the ChangeLog on both git and svn to force Unix linebreaks so that
should take care of that.

Sorry about misreading the HOW TO RELEASE doc.

I'm so used to glossing over the ChangeLog part that I read it as

Make a ChangeLog

Instead of:

 make ChangeLog

Sorry about that.  I'll remember next time.

Regina


-----Original Message-----
From: Sandro Santilli [mailto:sandro.santilli at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Sandro
Santilli
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 6:09 AM
To: postgis-devel at lists.osgeo.org
Cc: Paragon Corporation <lr at pcorp.us>
Subject: Please keep ChangeLog updates small

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>
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> 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