as mentioned in #57174, project's CHANGELOG.txt file is hopelessly out of date. 4.6's copy hasn't been touched since "23. June 2005", and the one in HEAD was last touched in "08. November 2005". :( i've contributed to this problem, by fixing some bugs in the meantime. however, it seems like we need a more thorough pouring through the cvs logs and updating if we want to really solve this. either way, we should be better about keeping the CHANGELOG updated when we fix things...

-derek

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#2 0001-updating-changelog.patch34.22 KBmarvil07

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babbage commented
Version: x.y.z » 6.x-1.x-dev

Reviewing old issues in a battle against entropy.

This one is actually still (or rather, again) relevant in the current HEAD. CHANGELOG.txt was last updated on 18 December 2006 in the CVS commit: merging DRUPAL-4-7--2 branch as tagged at DRUPAL-4-7--2-1 into HEAD. The last change in the Changelog itself is:
XX. September 2006
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- Split out releases into project_release.module and made them real nodes
(dww and merlinofchaos)

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marvil07 commented
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new 0001-updating-changelog.patch34.22 KB

Here is a patch that adds commit messages from DRUPAL-6--1-0-ALPHA1 to actual HEAD in the format proposed on Commit messages - providing history and credit.

I did not change old entries in other format, nor added commit messaged between the last old entry and DRUPAL-6--1-0-ALPHA1.

Not sure if it is better to delete old entries or convert them all to the new format adding missing commit messages.

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marvil07 commented

To avoid forgetting what I have done here :-p

# for each changelog heading
git log --reverse --pretty=format:"%s" from-hash..to-hash

BTW I was not able to find a 6.x-1.x-alpha2 tag, something I am missing?