Re: 9.5 release notes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: 9.5 release notes
Date
Msg-id 20150629221216.GN30708@awork2.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: 9.5 release notes  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: 9.5 release notes
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On 2015-06-29 17:58:54 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Yeah we are.  The only places you'll find where we aren't formatting to 77
> or 78 columns or so are where it would require breaking SGML tags in weird
> places.

Which isn't exactly infrequent...

Anyway, how about:
format:%cd [%h] %<(8,trunc)%cN: %<(49,trunc)%s

(which you can configure as pretty.pgmajor or so in .gitconfig btw.)

> (There are two different things to worry about here.  One is how you're
> going to reverse-engineer the annotations into the release notes Bruce
> already made.  Even un-truncated first lines of commit messages will often
> not be enough for matching up commits to those notes.  But I'm thinking
> more about how we do this in future release cycles, and for that, getting
> git_changelog to help is clearly the ticket.)

I'm not against doing that.



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