Re: Rebase of the pr-msvc-support branch?

[Eric Blake]

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According to Peter Rosin on 1/9/2009 3:11 AM:
> Den 2009-01-09 03:58 skrev Eric Blake:
>> Check out Bruno Haible's git-merge-changelog, currently in the gnulib
>> repository.  It handles rebasing/merging of ChangeLog entries with
>> minimal
> 
> I don't have gnulib-tool, which is mentioned in that file, how do I get
> hold of that tool (for cygwin)?

Here's how to get a shallow gnulib clone, then build git-merge-changelog:

$ git clone --depth=1 git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git
$ gnulib/gnulib-tool --create-testdir --dir=/tmp/testdir123 \
   git-merge-changelog
$ cd /tmp/testdir123
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install

(optionally you can check out all of gnulib, by removing --depth)

you also have to modify .git/config (or ~/.gitconfig) to install
git-merge-changelog as your merge handler for changelogs.

> Hmm, is it allowed for ChangeLog entries to not be in chronological
> order? Or should I redate them when I rebase?

That point is a bit fuzzy; personally, I'm okay with preserving the date
that a patch was written, but ordering the changelog in the order patches
were applied (so dates are out of order), but rewriting the entries to
have the date of the merge is also probably acceptable.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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