Re: 9.5 release notes

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 9.5 release notes
Date: 2015-06-29 22:12:16
Message-ID: 20150629221216.GN30708@awork2.anarazel.de
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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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