Re: cg-commit does not run pre-commit hook?

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Oct 12, 2006, 16:59 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610120957460.3952@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061012155444.27391353BDE@atlas.denx.de>

On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

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> > 
> > git log
> 
> Sorry, this does not work, as I can access the  commit  message  only
> *after* the commit completed, and then it's too late to get it into a
> file that shall be included with the very same commit.

Why? That's just stupid.

If you want to have a ChangeLog file, it's _much_ better to just auto-generate it after the fact. When you cut a tar-file, just have the script autogenerate the changelog then and there. Why do it inside the SCM that keeps track of the data _anyway_.

> True, as long as you can work within the SCM. The changelog file  I'm
> talking  about is mostly for people who just work with exported trees
> (for example, when they download a tarball).

Right - but it's easy enough to add it to the tar-ball, so..

		Linus