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Re: Flag day for simplified package inputs
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: Flag day for simplified package inputs |
Date: |
Tue, 23 Nov 2021 18:08:31 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Jelle Licht <jlicht@fsfe.org> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Jelle Licht <jlicht@fsfe.org> skribis:
>>
>>> When applying this and future bulk changes, could we perhaps list the
>>> specific commits (+ commented shortlog line) in a file. To clarify, if
>>> we were to store these commits in `.git-blame-ignore-revs', later on we
>>> can instruct users to run:
>>>
>>> git config blame.ignoreRevsFile .git-blame-ignore-revs
>>>
>>> to ignore the bulk change for git blame purposes.
>>
>> Sounds like a good idea. There’s no particular convention regarding the
>> file name of ‘.git-blame-ignore-revs’, right?
>
> As far as I know there is no established convention, although after
> searching around a bit I found that Sarah Morgensen proposed the exact
> same thing in September. It seems the chromium project also follows the
> same naming scheme, so we won't be totally idiosyncratic at least :).
Good. :-) Could you (or Sarah?) propose a patch, including a sentence
or two in the manual with the ‘git config’ snippet?
Thanks,
Ludo’.