| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Adding commit details to SGML release notes |
| Date: | 2015-08-28 22:31:45 |
| Message-ID: | 20150828223145.GF18678@momjian.us |
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On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 12:23:30AM +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2015-08-28 17:49:35 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > If we _don't_ do that, how do you easily get those lines into the
> > release notes? I can't imagine how hard it was for Andres to add that
> > text to the 9.5 release notes:
>
> Formatting the log wasn't the hard part, that was finding out which item
> in the release notes corresponds to which commits. Sometimes that's not
> that easy to see. For the formatting I had an emacs macro.
Right, the formatting is easy with any good editor, but having the text
there as you are writing the release notes is a huge time-saver, and if
we want that text, it should be present in the git_changelog output when
creating those release notes.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
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