Our ChangeLog is generated by basically redirecting the output of 'git log' into it so, as can be expected, it has only gotten bigger as development has progressed. As of today, its size has reached pretty much comical levels: $ du -sk ChangeLog 11328 ChangeLog All of that for information *literally nobody* cares about: end users and distro maintainers have proper release notes lovingly compiled for them, while developers peruse the history either by calling 'git log' directly or through their favorite $EDITOR's git integration. Replacing the generated ChangeLog with a short message pointing interested parties to the git repository does not only reduce the size of the unpacked sources from 259904 KiB to 248576 KiB (~4% saving): from a quick test on my laptop, doing so reduces the size of the *compressed* release archive from 15140 KiB to 12364 KiB (~18% saving) and also takes the time needed to run 'make distcheck' down from 4:44 to 4:21 (~8% saving). Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@xxxxxxxxxx> --- .gitignore | 1 - ChangeLog | 15 +++++++++++++++ Makefile.am | 14 +------------- bootstrap.conf | 4 ++-- cfg.mk | 2 +- 5 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) create mode 100644 ChangeLog diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index 3223cf1b76..c918ec8226 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ .sc-start-sc_* .ycm_extra_conf.py /AUTHORS -/ChangeLog /GNUmakefile /INSTALL /NEWS diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..55eb05c5ce --- /dev/null +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +libvirt ChangeLog +================= + +The libvirt project doesn't include a detailed ChangeLog in its release +archives. + +If you're interested in the full list of changes made to libvirt since +the project was started, you can clone the git repository from + + https://libvirt.org/git/libvirt.git + +and browse them locally using your favorite git history viewer or, +alternatively, browse them online at + + https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=log diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index 3c06e2619a..ebfcbec07a 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -79,19 +79,7 @@ check-access: MAINTAINERCLEANFILES = .git-module-status -dist-hook: gen-ChangeLog gen-AUTHORS - -# Generate the ChangeLog file (with all entries since the switch to git) -# and insert it into the directory we're about to use to create a tarball. -gen_start_date = 2009-07-04 -.PHONY: gen-ChangeLog -gen-ChangeLog: - $(AM_V_GEN)if test -d .git; then \ - $(top_srcdir)/build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog \ - --since=$(gen_start_date) > $(distdir)/cl-t; \ - rm -f $(distdir)/ChangeLog; \ - mv $(distdir)/cl-t $(distdir)/ChangeLog; \ - fi +dist-hook: gen-AUTHORS .PHONY: gen-AUTHORS gen-AUTHORS: diff --git a/bootstrap.conf b/bootstrap.conf index c2194df80b..b63acffcdb 100644 --- a/bootstrap.conf +++ b/bootstrap.conf @@ -176,8 +176,8 @@ xmllint - xsltproc - " -# Automake requires that ChangeLog and AUTHORS exist. -touch AUTHORS ChangeLog || exit 1 +# Automake requires that AUTHORS exist. +touch AUTHORS || exit 1 # Override bootstrap's list - we don't use mdate-sh or texinfo.tex. gnulib_extra_files=" diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk index a62d4db13b..8594f64482 100644 --- a/cfg.mk +++ b/cfg.mk @@ -1113,7 +1113,7 @@ maint.mk Makefile: _autogen_error # though, as it would be quite pointless ifeq (2,$(_dry_run_result)$(_clean_requested)) $(info INFO: running autogen.sh is required, running it now...) - $(shell touch $(srcdir)/AUTHORS $(srcdir)/ChangeLog) + $(shell touch $(srcdir)/AUTHORS) maint.mk Makefile: _autogen endif endif -- 2.20.1 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
