Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Drop ChangeLog

[Mosè Giordano]

Hi Tassilo,

2015-11-09 18:18 GMT+01:00 Tassilo Horn <address@hidden>:
> Mosè Giordano <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Hi Mosè,
>
>>>> [1] BTW, how about dropping it [the ChangeLog] and auto-generating
>>>> it like Emacs?
>>>
>>> Yes, please!
>>
>> Good, after the release of 11.89 I think we have the chance to do this
>> change.[1]
>>
>> Do you know exactly which changes should we take?  First, move the
>> ChangeLog to ChangeLog.1 and ignore it in git, but then?  Which
>> scripts we need from Emacs?  build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog and what
>> else, if any?
>
> I think what you are saying is exactly correct.  And then we just need
> to do
>
>   gitlog-to-changelog --since=<day-of-dropping> > ChangeLog
>   cat ChangeLog.1 >> ChangeLog
>
> when doing a release, i.e., something like that should be in the
> corresponding Makefile rule.

Wow, sounds good!

Thank you,
Mosè