Re: make change-history on non-master branches

[Paul Eggert]

Glenn Morris wrote:
> Why does 'make change-history' refuse to run on non-master branches?
> It's going to need to be run on the emacs-25 branch, isn't it?

'make change-history' refuses to run on non-master branches because I thought 
there would be problems if people ran it on their own branches.  Feel free to 
remove that check if you want to deal with the fallout.

> (It seems to me that it would be simpler if the corrections to commit
> logs were versioned, not the whole generated ChangeLog; but I've said
> that before.)

That's what coreutils does.  Only one person uses that facility, which is hard 
to use, and my impression is that nobody else understands how it works.