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automatically generate change file from cvs

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

So I had Mark Stosberg note that HTML::Template::Default had no Changes file.

I keep everything in cvs because .. Because otherwise I think I would be in a mental instituion.

So, cvs records changes if you tell it something- as you commit changes.

There is a specific gnu format for a changes file. You will see changefiles in distros like CGI, CGI::Application.. most good distros. And it makes sense, to keep track of stuff. People might want to know what’s up and why. And often I do add comments to my commits.
But, do I have to write this tedious file by hand? Maybe there’s an automatic way to generate this…
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