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A changelog is a log or record of changes made to a project.

A changelog is a log or record of changes made to a project, such as a website or software project, usually including such records as bug fixes, new features, etc

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Strategy for extracting messages of most useful commits to changelog

The needs for this question is to have a changelog for managers/customers that: does include "Let users have additional addresses" does not include "Fixed the bug where addresses were overwritten due to X" avoid having to look through complete…
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How to extend Liquibase to generate change logs with stored procedures, functions and triggers?

Currently Liquibase has some limitations when you try to generate change logs on an existing database. It does not export the following types of objects: Stored procedures, functions, packages Triggers Types Reference:…
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Emacs: Is there a way to generate a skeleton ChangeLog from diff?

I'd like to partly automate creation of GNU-style ChangeLog entries when working with source code in version control. The add-changelog-entry-other-window works with one file at a time and you have to visit the file to use it. What I'd like to see…
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Why maintain traditional detailed ChangeLog in modern world (with SVN, Mercurial, Git)?

Detailed ChangeLog entry usually tell who, when and what function changed and for why this change done. And this for every separate function in the source code tree! As I understand ChangeLog come from past when there were no good VCS. So…
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Generate changelog for a semantically released package

Here is the package I'm working on currently. This is the first time I'm trying to enforce the conventional changelog format and use semantic release versioning. The releasing itself works fine, I'm having travis CI testing, building and publishing…
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Create a listing of changed files/directories/etc. using git between two tags

I need to generate a changelog of sorts between two Tags within a project controlled using git, specifically the android source code. This list should include any files/directories/etc which have been edited, moved, renamed, deleted, created. Any…
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Formatting the svn log output

I have been generating change logs in subversion using the svn log command. To make it easier to read, I'd like to add a newline after each revision's comments. If the output initially appears like…
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When did the file mode in Perl's open become a separate argument?

Once upon a time, you opened files in Perl like so: open(FH, ">$filename"); At some point, for many good reasons including some very sticky ones involving filenames with leading spaces, this syntax became available (and, immediately,…
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EclipseLink JPA Tracking Changes

I try to log any changes of my JPA entities. For this reason each entity inherits from an abstract entity class which has a list of LogEntry objects. AbstractEntity class: @Entity @Inheritance(strategy =…
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Changelog changelog.groovy not found

I've created new Grails project in IntellijIDEA 11.1.3 and try to run it. When I open http://localhost:8080/application/dbdoc (accessing default action of controller grails.plugin.databasemigration.DbdocController), I keep getting message: Changelog…
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How to implement change log with JPA?

I have an entity class manged by with JPA, and I have one entity that needs to be loged changes in its property. Does JPA provides any ways to handle this kind of requirement ?
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Emacs: Set fill-column in Change Log Mode

Very specific question that I hope is not too dumb. (setq-default fill-column 120) sets the width of the buffer fill to 120 columns. Default for me otherwise is 74. This command, when put in my .emacs file, works for all major modes I use (C++,…
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NPM ChangeLogging and automatization

Python packages have best practices for documenting public API changes using CHANGES.txt (see an example). There are tools like zest.releaser which do automated package publish and release notes maintenance. Do NPM packages have best practices for…
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EclipseLink Audit / History / Track changes

i've tried to implement a way to track data changes and create a history log for my application. Because i'm using EclipseLink it should be easy and possible to get the changes like they write on the EclipseLink FAQ The first solution works but the…
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Liquibase with Gradle - silly problem with changeLogFile path

I'm stuck with a silly but annoying problem with implementing Liquibase to my existing project. After a lot of struggling I got it to work when starting the application, it runs through the master changelog and the included…
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