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maint: Stop generating ChangeLog from git
authorAndrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Mon, 1 Apr 2019 15:33:03 +0000 (17:33 +0200)
committerAndrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Wed, 3 Apr 2019 07:45:25 +0000 (09:45 +0200)
commitce97c33a795dec053f1e85c65ecd924b8c6ec4ba
treeded8db44dc13823ff7539af371fb9b87d007fc19
parent241a0e8c8b7148bfb47858e07ca5a25bb823881e
maint: Stop generating ChangeLog from git

Our ChangeLog is generated by basically redirecting the output
of 'git log' into it so, as can be expected, it has only gotten
bigger as development has progressed. As of today, its size has
reached pretty much comical levels:

  $ du -sk ChangeLog
  11328 ChangeLog

All of that for information *literally nobody* cares about: end
users and distro maintainers have proper release notes lovingly
compiled for them, while developers peruse the history either by
calling 'git log' directly or through their favorite $EDITOR's
git integration.

Replacing the generated ChangeLog with a short message pointing
interested parties to the git repository does not only reduce
the size of the unpacked sources from 259904 KiB to 248576 KiB
(~4% saving): from a quick test on my laptop, doing so reduces
the size of the *compressed* release archive from 15140 KiB to
12364 KiB (~18% saving) and also takes the time needed to run
'make distcheck' down from 4:44 to 4:21 (~8% saving).

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
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