Re: Deriving release notes from git commit messages

On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> On Saturday, July 02, 2011 06:10:43 AM Tom Lane wrote:
>> I wouldn't have a problem with establishing a convention that we
>> write credits in commit messages in a more standardized way, ie put
>> something like "Author: Joe Blow <joe(at)blow(dot)nom>" in the body of the
>> commit message.  However, the points that were raised about commit
>> messages being effectively uncorrectable after-the-fact seem to me
>> to put a big crimp in the idea of using that as the primary source
>> of credit information.  We'd still need something like the web app
>> Robert described in <BANLkTimOxDA08qM4LSH4QjA3YZtyuuewsA(at)mail(dot)gmail(dot)com>
>> to allow correction of the info.
> There are git notes which you can attach to a commit after the fact... I like
> the fact that they would keep the information in the repository (where they
> seem to belong).

Yeah, but I think it's still basically append-only, which is kind of a
nuisance, and it means they can only be updated by committers, which
is not particularly helpful from my point of view.

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