Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r116644: ChangeLog entries should be usable without the VCS

[Dmitry Gutov]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:

> Using only the hash is frowned upon, the best practice is to follow it
> with the subject of the commit message.

Considering that many commits in Emacs don't have an actual subject
(only a list of changes, changelog-style), that won't always be possible.

And when they have, inserting the whole line may be too much. But if you
replace "the subject" with "a few words from the message", it would
work.