Yes, but still: in many cases they are very similar.
Plus, it's hard to auto-add a NEWS entry from a commit message (because you need to determine the right section), while it's easy to pre-fill the commit message from a NEWS diff.
Georg
Anthony Baxter schrieb:
Often the NEWS entry ends up being rewritten from the commit message to be more user-focussed description of the change...
On Sep 14, 2009 6:33 PM, "Georg Brandl" <g.brandl@gmx.net <mailto:g.brandl@gmx.net>> wrote:
Brett Cannon schrieb:
brainstorm: >> >> It'd be nicer if we could generate the file from another source, >> perhaps ke...
We should just switch to Mercurial :)
I've already hacked up a hg extension to automatically fill the commit message with the changes in a NEWS or CHANGELOG file. This works quite well -- you add the short but nice description to NEWS, do "hg commit", and the editor pops up where you can either accept the message consisting of only the changes in NEWS, or add some more stuff that's not interesting to users.