Re: April 7 cutover for generating ChangeLog automatically

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 13:09:22 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> On 04/07/2015 11:27 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > change-log-default-name? 
> 
> I expect a relative file name there will be interpreted relative to the 
> directory containing the source file which is not what we want, and an 
> absolute file name would work only if everybody puts their source 
> directory at the same localtion ("/home/rms/src/emacs/master", say).
> 
> We could establish an extended interpretation for that variable, e.g., 
> "./ChangeLog" would be relative to the directory containing the 
> .dir-locals.el file, but I assume that'd require a change to the code.

Or maybe the value of change-log-default-name could be an expression
to be evaluated, in which case we could use in that expression
locate-dominating-file whose arguments are "." and ".git".