On 06/15/2012 02:29 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 06/15/2012 12:17 PM, Cole Robinson wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The AUTHORS file causes a lot of pain doing backports to -maint branches. It >> almost always causes conflicts, and the changes can't just be dropped >> otherwise 'make syntax-check' breaks. >> >> Is there anything preventing us from just auto generating this at dist time? >> Besides, of course, needing someone to actually implement it. > > GNU Coreutils autogenerates its THANKS file by combining THANKS.in > (header and non-commit authors) with git commit authors. Someone could > probably use that for inspiration in writing such a patch. And the fact > that we already have a 'make syntax-check' that validates that AUTHORS > is up-to-date already means that we have code for a lot of the > automation, if we just further tweak it into an automated generation > instead of the current verification. > Thanks for the hints, I'll see if I can whip something up. - Cole -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list