Re: ChangeLog and the release branch

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala <address@hidden>
> Cc: Artur Malabarba <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 02:37:48 +0530
> 
> I may be totally wrong, but I think we can have a clean solution by not fixing
> Changelog manually, but storing the diff of Changelog (of that commit) in git
> notes.
> 
> And while generating Changelog
> 
> - retrieve changelog from commit message
> - apply diff from git notes (if available)
> - Finally store it in the Changelog file.
> 
> IIUC, this could work on any branch.

How do you store the diffs in Git notes?  You can't easily write diffs
by hand, so some script is needed to generate them and put them there.

Other than that, perhaps this is what we should do.

Thanks.