Re: Using VC for change descriptions

[Richard Stallman]

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  > This is an issue even for short and trivial patches. For example, for 
  > this one:

  > 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=f8b4e87d5d4f57954b50677add76ce5136211dc1

  > I guess that it took me a couple of minutes to write and test the patch, 
  > and about the same time to write the ChangeLog entry.

I fetched that page and did not see anything like a ChangeLog entry.
Unless it is this:

   Fix copyright years by hand
   These are dates that admin/update-copyright did not update, or updated
   incorrectly.
 
Since it's a trivial change, it doesn't need more than that.

What is the text that took minutes to write?  Could you show it to me?

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