Re: Referring to revisions in the git future

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Barry Warsaw writes:

 > [Commit logs] include a lot more detail about a change so that
 > future developers have a good history spelunking experience, but a
 > changelog/NEWS file will give only the higher level user visible
 > changes.

ChangeLog != NEWS in Emacs.  Am I missing something?

Come to think of it, there could be a convention for creating and
marking NEWS entries in commit logs, then NEWS (or proto-NEWS, there
are ordering issues and it's not clear that committers could get them
right) could be auto-generated.