Re: [zzdev] Re: [zzdev] Re: [zzdev] Re: [zzdev] Re: [zzdev] Re: [zzdev] Re: [zzdev] Re: [zzdev] gzigzag commit policy?

["Tuomas J. Lukka" <lukka@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 05:05:53AM +0300, Tuomas J. Lukka wrote:
> > Or do you have a simple solution (that doesn't take long after the update?)
> 
> No, although it would be possible to set up a cronjob to put up a
> changelog in a known place and update it, say, every five or fifteen
> minutes.  Could also put in some postcommit magic to make sure it does
> not rebuild the changelog when no commits have happened.

So what's wrong with the repository itself as the place?

I know it seems silly to be storing a generated file in CVS but
OTOH if the format doesn't change the changes between successive
versions should be small.

I think this is one of the rare instances where storing a generatable
file is advantageous. The same would be if there were any time-consuming
generated parts (say an hour on a normal PC): storing the result in CVS
is not at all a bad idea then.

Gnome also has both commit messages and changelogs.

	Tuomas