Creating ChangeLog
From Emergent
Creating a GNU compliant ChangeLog from Subversion commits
- NOTE: You can now just 'make changelog'. You still have to have the utility below installed.
- DOUBLE NOTE: This is the first thing that happens when you type 'make dist'
- Go to the svn2cl website and download the latest version. svn2cl-0.3.tar.gz)
- Follow instructions for getting it setup (just a shell script)
- Go into /trunk/ of the codebase
- run, e.g.,
- svn log --xml --verbose | xsltproc /home/mingus/opt/svn2cl-0.3/svn2cl.xsl - > ChangeLog
- Commit the change. This only needs to be done once per release cycle.
- Visit the offical GNU Style of Change Logs, for reference.
