Empty ChangeLog in GEOS 3.7.0alpha

[Bas Couwenberg]

Previous releases has a proper ChangeLog, the file is emty in 3.7.0alpha.

[strk]

Regina: git2cl should be available on the machine running make dist A dist-hook rule invokes gen-ChangeLog which should do the generation IFF there's a .git directory. Please check how you generate the dist

[robe]

I did have it available. I purposely installed it in fact using

apt install git2cl

Anyway I'll look further why it created a 0 size ChangeLog.

Perhaps git2cl wasn't in path for some reason.

[robe]

hmm it's definitely in path, but for some reason running as part of a jenkins job returns a blank ChangeLog file.

running under jenkins account though

git2cl > ChangeLog;

works fine.

Only thing I see is this

Wide character in print at /usr/bin/git2cl line 374, <GEN0> line 2161.
Wide character in print at /usr/bin/git2cl line 374, <GEN0> line 2169.

which I suppose might be tripping it up when running under a jenkins job.

[robe]

Okay I found out the problem I think. For some reason under jenkins, when git log is generated I guess it doesn't use --pretty -numstat --summary that git2cl needs.

So to get it to work under jenkins, I did this:

git log --pretty --numstat --summary | git2cl > ChangeLog

You see any reason not to explicitly force that git log behavior?

[Regina Obe <lr@…>]

In 60fbafd/git:

Revise to call git log explicitly with format suitable for conversion by git2cl.
This is needed because jenkins uses git log format not suitable for git2cl
Closes #884