[python-committers] Misc/NEWS entries added to released versions

[Matthias Klose]

On 13.09.2009 18:07, Gregory P. Smith wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Matthias Klose<doko at debian.org>  wrote:
>> On 06.04.2009 00:33, Matthias Klose wrote:
>>>
>>> While looking at the diffs between the 261 release tags and the 26 branch,
>>> I
>>> noticed many items in Misc/NEWS appearing in the 2.6.1 or even 2.6
>>> sections.
>>> I moved all of these to 2.6.2, after checking some of them, and found all
>>> of the
>>> checked ones be backported after the 2.6.1 release. Is there anything what
>>> could
>>> be done to avoid these wrong merges?
>>>
>>> I plan to check the items on the 3.0 branch soon.
>>
>> done again for the 2.6.3 (2.6 branch) and 3.1.2 (3.1 branch) entries. I
>> didn't check if these were inserted to earlier entries by intent except for
>> the removal of the entry for issue #2522.
>>
>>   Matthias
>
> Thanks.  One reason this happens is that our NEWS file is very
> difficult to navigate.  svnmerge rarely works on it because the
> context is often different in the branch file but figuring out which
> version's section of the bazillion line file you are currently in is
> very tedious in a text editor.
>
> brainstorm:

another idea: have a pre-commit hook, which rejects modifications to this file
to entries for a released version, which can be overwritten by some keyword in 
the commit message.

   Matthias