merge-changelog(1)

✨ merge-changelog(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual page for merge-changelog — she's a lil command, she does one thing, and she does it flawlessly 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

merge-changelog — merges two changelogs that share a common base. that's it. that's the whole job. no cap 🫶

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

merge-changelog <left changelog> <right changelog>

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the tea ☕ — merge-changelog takes two changelogs that once shared a common source, smushes them back together into one, and prints the merged result straight to stdout. iconic behaviour honestly.

when is this useful, you ask? literally when you need to manually merge a ubuntu package with a new Debian release of the package. that's the vibe check right there. you got your ubuntu changelog on one side, the fresh Debian drop on the other, and they used to be the same family, so this tool reunites them like the parent trap 😭💞

ngl, it prints to stdout — it does not edit files in place, so redirect that output somewhere yourself, bestie. main character energy means handling your own redirection 💅

👑 AUTHORS 👑

merge-changelog was written by Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> and Bryce Harrington <bryce@ubuntu.com>. this manpage was written by Ryan Kavanagh <ryanakca@kubuntu.org>. absolute legends, all of them 🌟

both are released under the GNU General Public License, version 3. slay, legally speaking 🎀

and that's the whole page, babe 🍓 this one came to you from ubuntu-dev-tools, dated February 15, 2010 — yes she's vintage, yes she still eats 💖✨ bye bestie, go merge something 🦋