Re: Using VC for change descriptions

[Paul Eggert]

Richard Stallman wrote:
> for the idea of using these diffs in a script to generate a
> list of the entities changed in a given commit, the script needs to
> deal with this quirk.
>
> Want to write it?

No thanks. I have quite a bit of experience writing scripts to generate 
ChangeLog files -- I daresay more experience than anyone else contributing to 
this thread -- and this experience suggests that the proposed task is a lost 
cause. We cannot automatically generate ChangeLogs as "good" as the ones written 
by hand, and we shouldn't waste time trying. (By "good" I mean good for the 
traditional purposes that ChangeLogs were used for. For most of us I think these 
purposes are now largely superseded by version-control tools.)