Re: Release note bloat is getting out of hand

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> On 2/3/15 10:11 AM, Marko Tiikkaja wrote:
>> And now that we're on the subject of ponies, it would be nice if the
>> relevant git hashes were included as well.

> That's probably not going to happen.  A release-note entry is often the
> combination of many commits, and accurately tracking those is a lot of work.

Well, actually, modern release note entries tend to look like

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Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Branch: master [3fabed070] 2015-01-07 00:19:37 +0100
Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [7da102154] 2015-01-07 00:24:58 +0100
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Branch: master [31912d01d] 2015-01-07 00:18:00 +0100
Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [84911ff51] 2015-01-07 00:24:47 +0100
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   <listitem>    <para>     Assorted fixes for logical decoding (Andres Freund)    </para>   </listitem>

because they're prepared on the basis of src/tools/git_changelog output
and so having the git hashes is merely a matter of not deleting that
info after we're done writing the user-visible text.  So I could imagine
some tool that presents that info.  I'm not volunteering to write it
though ...
        regards, tom lane