changelog

Is there a means to produce a changelog in SVN

When commiting to SVN I can add a top level commit message to detail what is being committed, but I would ideally like a means to comment on the individual files and what has changed within them. I have seen something similar in previous employment, but this was using CVS (and I can't recall whether this was achieved with a home brew sc...

Emacs: Is there a way to generate a skeleton ChangeLog from diff?

I'd like to partly automate creation of GNU-style ChangeLog entries when working with source code in version control. The add-changelog-entry-other-window works with one file at a time and you have to visit the file to use it. What I'd like to see instead is to have some command that would take an output of diff -u -p (or have integrati...

How to effectively manage code changes to third party applications

Hi guys, My main site is built on top of Invision Power Board. With version 3 just being released, i want to start with a clean codebase and remake all my modifications, but the problem is, when Invision release new versions, keeping track of the modifications I have made so I can reapply them has always been a bastard to do. While this...

How do you maintain a community change log?

Hi everyone, I'm looking for a change log / features request program my client can use to see where I am at with the development. Trac looks sexy (http://trac.edgewall.org/) but too complex for what I need. Very simply, the client needs to be able to order tasks and for us to be able to sort them and keep a record of everything that i...

Open Source ChangeLog Options?

Are there any open source ChangeLog options? We would like to keep an in-house changelog so we can keep track of changes we do. Preferably, I'm looking for something PHP and MySQL as backend. Any suggestions? Thanks, Andrew ...

How do I obtain a list of files that changed from svn over a date range?

I'm attempting to pull a list of files that changed during a range of dates from svn. Currently I'm using something like this: svn diff -r {2009-08-10}:{2009-08-20} --summarize d:/libs/trunk Is there a better way to do this? ...

PHP 5.3 changelog?

Can anyone point me a good(with examples) changelog for php 5.3? I'm hearing lot's of ppl doing code migration to it and I'm wondering what is so new about it. ...

Does tortoise or ankh svn have log dump capability?

I'd like to include revision history in a menu system of my builds so that users can see it and it's auto-built from the svn repository before each build. My team doesn't have the core svn, only tortoise and ankh. I'd rather not have to go through configuration of it on each machine we use just for this feature if one of the tools we alr...

How to generate changelog from Trac

I need to generate changelog from Trac for a specific version as XML and then process it with a custom XSL. It seems one of the default reports is the case (All Tickets By Milestone (Including closed)). However, if i request it as XML (by adding format=rss to the url) the output XML does not contain Status, Resolution, Milestone fields...

CVS ChangeLog-script for windows-based build-process?

Hello, Do you know if there is a script or tool to create a changelog from our cvs, which can be integrated in a build-process on a windows-based build-server. I found this: http://www.red-bean.com/cvs2cl/, but it is not possible to install Perl on our build-server so i can't use cvs2cl. I've tried the simple command "cvs log", but ther...

major changes in python since version 2.2.3

I've written a small python script to create a file and calculate times. I've tested it on Fedora 10, and Ubuntu 8.x and it worked well. the python versions were 2.5.x. I tried to run it on my production server (an old red hat based linux server), the version of python is 2.2.3. the script does not work and raises a syntax error in the ...

Detailed Changelog for .NET Framework 4.0

Is there a detailed list of changes in .NET 4.0? Please add any changes you know about. ...

When did the file mode in Perl's open become a separate argument?

Once upon a time, you opened files in Perl like so: open(FH, ">$filename"); At some point, for many good reasons including some very sticky ones involving filenames with leading spaces, this syntax became available (and, immediately, preferred): open(FH, '>', $filename); What version of Perl did we get that syntax with? ...

Create a listing of changed files/directories/etc. using git between two tags

I need to generate a changelog of sorts between two Tags within a project controlled using git. Specifically the android source code. This list should include any files/directories/etc which have been edited, moved, renamed, deleted, created. Any help would be great. and if you have a way to do this over the entire android source at once...

Detailed change history of .NET framework versions?

I am looking for a detailed change history (including bugfixes) of all .NET framework versions, especially the changes between 2.0 and 3.5 SP1. I know that something like that exists for v2.0 and v1.1, and for v4.0. However, I could not find a history for v3.0 and v3.5/SP1. Background: (slightly edited) We are having issues somewhere b...

Maven changelog plugin with Mercurial problem

I have configured my Maven2 project to generate a changelog report from a Mercurial repository (accessible via file:// protocol) but the goal execution fails with the following message: + Error stacktraces are turned on. [INFO] Scanning for projects... [INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'changelog'. [INFO] -------------...

git: changelog day by day

How to generate changelog of commits groupped by date, in format: [date today] - commit message1 - commit message2 - commit message3 ... [date day+3] - commit message1 - commit message2 - commit message3 ... (skip this day if no commits) [date day+1] - commit message1 - commit message2 - commit message3 ... [date since] - commit messa...

Generating changelogs from commit-comments - bad idea?

I work for a small company (<10 developers) where we use Svn and to some extent Git. We have no release system implemented. We don't tag our applications with a release numbers so as you can imagine, we don't keep track of changes between releases very well. With this in mind I've been thinking about generating changelogs from the commi...

Good ways to manage a changelog using git?

Hello all, I've been using Git for a while now, and I recently started using it to tag my releases so that I could more easily keep track of changes and be able to see which version each of our clients are running (unfortunately the code currently mandates that each client have their own copy of the PHP site; I'm changing this, but it's...

How to make Hudson create changelog since last deploy

I would like our Hudson deploy job to output a changelog of all Subversion changes since last deploy. Any ideas to how that is done? ...