Re: Adding commit details to SGML release notes

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Adding commit details to SGML release notes
Date: 2015-08-28 22:03:15
Message-ID: 2969.1440799395@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 05:32:38PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Personally I find that truncated output to be pretty unreadable, and
>> would strongly object to changing git_changelog so that that was the only
>> possible format. However, I have no objection to making it an option
>> ("git_changelog --short", or so), and that would dodge any concerns about
>> failing on git versions without the feature.

> Well, my idea would be to change this git_changelog line:

> Branch: master [01051a987] 2015-07-09 11:38:34 +0300

> to output something in the new 'trunc' format, so we have it right next
> to the release note text and the release notes easily get that comment.

Right, I'm merely saying that I want the current format by default, and
the trunc format only with a command-line option.

regards, tom lane

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