Re: April 7 cutover for generating ChangeLog automatically

[Paul Eggert]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 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.

Yes, that's what I typically do.  vc-dwim encourages this style; with it, the 
top level ChangeLog is a symlink to somewhere else, which has other advantages.

Another hack would be something like this:

(setq change-log-default-name "/home/eggert/src/gnu/emacs/master/ChangeLog")

Though of course this won't work well if you have the habit of working on 
multiple projects or repositories.

I expect add-change-log-entry could be made smarter, so that it would do the 
right thing with a vanilla copy of Emacs checked out from the repository, one 
that doesn't have a ChangeLog file.