Re: April 7 cutover for generating ChangeLog automatically

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: João Távora <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 15:05:47 +0100
> Cc: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>, Emacs Development <address@hidden>
> 
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> > On 03/31/2015 10:53 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> >
> >> The suggested format for commit messages will be changed slightly:
> >>
> >>   - File names should be relative to the top level, e.g.:
> >
> >
> > Shouldn't this rule be accompanied with a change in `add-change-log-entry'?
> > Or `find-change-log'?
> 
> FWIW, If you have the multiple dummy ChangeLog buffers, I think eventually
> `log-edit-insert-changelog' does the right thing and inserts the top-level 
> path.
> 
> Would be nice to automatically cleanup those buffers though, or not
> need  them at all.

Create a top-level ChangeLog file with a single dummy entry, and the
next add-change-log-entry will automatically find that ChangeLog and
format the entry as required.