Re: Flag day for simplified package inputs

[Jelle Licht]

Hello there,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Jelle Licht <jlicht@fsfe.org> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Jelle Licht <jlicht@fsfe.org> skribis:
>>>
>>>> When applying this and future bulk changes, could we perhaps list the
>>>> specific commits (+ commented shortlog line) in a file. To clarify, if
>>>> we were to store these commits in `.git-blame-ignore-revs', later on we
>>>> can instruct users to run:
>>>>
>>>> git config blame.ignoreRevsFile .git-blame-ignore-revs
>>>>
>>>> to ignore the bulk change for git blame purposes.
>>>
>>> Sounds like a good idea.  There’s no particular convention regarding the
>>> file name of ‘.git-blame-ignore-revs’, right?
>>
>> As far as I know there is no established convention, although after
>> searching around a bit I found that Sarah Morgensen proposed the exact
>> same thing in September. It seems the chromium project also follows the
>> same naming scheme, so we won't be totally idiosyncratic at least :).
>
> Good.  :-)  Could you (or Sarah?) propose a patch, including a sentence
> or two in the manual with the ‘git config’ snippet?

I will work on that. Do we already have a suitable 'bulk change' in the
repo? Or should we first run `guix style', and subsequently use that
commit as the first entry in the .git-blame-ignore-revs file?

- Jelle