You should remove the line with

$Log:$

at the end of the file and the log will no longer be appended.

Making a separate changelog can be done in several ways.

For FPC a changelog is generated once a day by a cron job, I think.

I can start such a job for lazarus if you want.

Michael.

Deleting the lines at the end and re-committing them won't work?

Shane

Hi,

Would it be possible to remove the ever-repeating changelogs from the end of each file and perhaps create a separate Changelog file?

It is inconvenient for me (and I bet for others as well :-) when I grep sources for something and find it several times in changelogs only in unrelated files :-(

I don't have any experience in setting up CVS server, so cannot say how, though. If someone is able to do that, please do.

Michal Bukovjan

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With the compiler we use it also, it's very easy because you can search for $Log and check what was changed in that file without opening to a different Changelog file.

But there is also a small util in the compiler/utils/ subdir called fixlog.pp that can remove all old logs after X revisions or logs older than date Y. This will reduce the amount of logs

Peter

That's correct. The Changelog is generate using the tool cvslog and runs everynight on ftp.freepascal.org and retrieves the log using the "cvs log" command and then generates the Changelog and commits it to cvs.

Peter

I don't think so, I'm using (and possibly others) to see who (and sometimes what) is changed. Whithout looking in cvs it is easy to find out who has committed the changes one doen't understand ot (worse) don't compile.

If you ask me, I won't remove the Log statements.

when I grep sources for something and find it several times in changelogs only in unrelated files :-(

Only had this one or two times. In any ccase to little to annoy.

I don't have any experience in setting up CVS server, so cannot say how, though. If someone is able to do that, please do.

Marc

I agree. But in current state, you see revisions to other files (i.e. these are misplaced), so it is not very useful.

And as I said, I am bothered when I grep for some expression and find this expression in always longer changelogs, copied across multiple files. It makes 'grep' often useless.

Lazarus is the only project that does this I've seen so far.

Michal

Would it be possible to remove the ever-repeating changelogs from the end of each file and perhaps create a separate Changelog file?

Being able to see the revision of each file in each file is very handy for developpers. This is not something one usually sees until somebody is submitting patches or changing things in CVS.