bug#19113: Generate a ChangeLog file from commit logs

[Glenn Morris]

Paul Eggert wrote:

> That's correct.  It's mainly intended to correct serious errors, e.g.,
> misattribution.  To help give a feel for it, of the 3329 commits to
> GNU coreutils master since it began generating ChangeLogs
> automatically, only 7 have been corrected in coreutils'
> build-aux/git-log-fix file.

coreutils has a total of 6 people with write access, all of whom are
experienced, long-time contributors.

Emacs has nearly 200 and rising, of widely varying experience, some of
whom seem to take very little care with their commit messages.

So I don't think how things work for coreutils is likely to be
representative of how they will work for Emacs.