On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Josh Stone <jistone@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/28/2016 08:00 AM, Justin Forbes wrote: > > The kernel changelog gets long fairly quickly. We have almost daily > updates > > to rawhide. Historically we have trimmed it every so often back to a year > > of history. I was looking for a better way. I propose that we trim the > > kernel changelog to the branch date for each release in rawhide, and put > > everything we cut into a "changelog.history" file. This would make the > spec > > contain a changelog for an entire release cycle and nothing more, while > the > > history is still there for anyone who needs it. We also have the git > > commit logs, but they are not always as detailed as the changelog. > > However, git will have the patch history of removing all those lines. > If you mark these trimming commits in a consistent way, folks can even > do something like: git log -p --grep=log-trim > We can certainly do that, though the "changelog.history" file sitting in the kernel would also hold all relevant information. Justin _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
