Just a small productivity tip today. I have this in my .alias file (or put it in your .bashrc or somewhere).
svndiff () { svn diff “$*” | colordiff | less; }
When you now run svndiff where you would normally run svn diff you get a nice diff in colors (which is pretty addictive) and it [...]

Most extragear applications need to make there own changelog, just before they release a new tarball. In my projects I had a little script for doing that. Each commits gets an entry in the ChangeLog file and is associated with the real name of that person. I always use the diff from the ChangeLog file [...]