Re: ChangeLog and commit messages

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 15:41:28 +0800
> 
> One idea I have is to allow writing:
> 
>   ** no title **
> 
> in commit messages, and to avoid placing such titles in the generated
> ChangeLog.

If you do that, it will break "git log --pretty=oneline" and Emacs
features such as "C-x v L".

There's a reason why we require a meaningful heading line.  It isn't
arbitrary, and its main purpose is not for ChangeLog at all.