Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Glenn Morris <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 12:10:37 -0500
> 
> 
> Pretend I posted
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-09/msg00637.html
> 
> again.

This part:

 3) ChangeLogs can be edited to correct mistakes, commit logs cannot.

can be taken care of when producing ChangeLog files from commit
messages: the gitlog-to-changelog script has a facility to perform
replacements while it generates ChangeLog, so we could maintain a list
of mistake corrections for that purpose.

This part:

 4) I have the impression that having to write ChangeLogs leads to
 higher quality entries than just using commit logs would.

worries me as well, especially since I've seen a couple of projects
where the quality of log messages is very low (not sure if that
started when they tossed ChangeLogs).

> I did a lot of merging between branches with bzr, and had basically zero
> problems with the ChangeLogs.

The same is true when using git-merge-changelog with git.