Re: Script to generate ChangeLogs automatically

[Joseph Myers]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2018, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:

> The last time I checked (some years ago) there was an attempt to use git in
> bash but with patch blobs going into the git tree with little or no
> information in the git log.

That was what I had in mind when I wrote point 3 on my list of criteria 
for not requiring ChangeLog format 
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-standards/2017-07/msg00000.html> - 
commits for logical changes, not huge commits like "Bash-4.4 distribution 
sources and documentation" 
<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/commit/?id=a0c0a00fc419b7bc08202a79134fcd5bc0427071>,
 
clearly being needed to be able to use the version control history for 
exploring past changes.

(bash has a symlink ChangeLog -> CWRU/changelog, where the latter has 
ChangeLog-like descriptions of changes to named entities, but not in 
ChangeLog format and only for changes since the previous release.)

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Joseph S. Myers
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