Re: Deriving release notes from git commit messages - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Deriving release notes from git commit messages
Date
Msg-id 201107032133.19548.andres@anarazel.de
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In response to Re: Deriving release notes from git commit messages  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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On Sunday, July 03, 2011 09:18:52 PM Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 20:04, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> > On Sunday, July 03, 2011 06:46:15 PM Tom Lane wrote:
> >> A look at the git-notes man page says that you can only have one note
> >> per commit, but you can edit that note, and git does track the revision
> >> history of each note.
> > I don't think its that hard to write a hook which allows notes changes
> > for a different set of people than source changes.
> > Whether the people wanting to annotate commits are ok with using git I do
> > not know.
> 
> If you want a different group of people to maintain it, then why force
> it into the same repository in the first place? Having to write hooks
> to work around things with that seems to be solving the wrong problem,
> imho.
Because imho the information who worked on a patch belongs alongside the 
patch. I can't forsee a really useful usage of that information without the 
commit alongside...

Andres


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