merging debian changelog

[Pierre Habouzit]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 11:55:07PM +0000, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> On lun, jan 07, 2008 at 10:43:58 +0000, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> >   I know this is a painful thing to do (if you consider the inherent
> > triviality of it), hence I ended up writing a custom merger. This is all
> > very sketchy, but I'm sure people will enhance it :)
> 
>   Here is a better version, that I believe can be used as a git merge
> driver using this configuration snipplet:
> 
> [merge "merge-debchangelog"]
>     name = Debian Changelog merge driver
>     driver = /path/to/merge-debchangelog.py %O %A %B %A
> 
> and then, if I'm correct, you can in the .gitattribute of your debian/
> directory set:
> 
> ----8<----
> /changelog merge=merge-debchangelog
> ---->8----

  ok, it's actually in debian/.gitattributes with an 's' and the line
is without a leading slash:
changelog merge=merge-debchangelog

  and it works remarkably well \o/ Now $someone just has to make the
merge of a given version chunk more intelligent (using diff3 e.g. and
disregarding the trailing line, or keeping the one with the "biggest"
date, whichever you see fit) and it should merge debian/changelogs
without a glitch in 99% of the cases :)

some merge-debchangelog pr0n:

$ git merge debian-experimental
merging debian/changelog using Debian Changelog merge driver
Merge made by recursive.
 debian/changelog |   19 +++++++++++++------
 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)


-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder at debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org
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