Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 03/08/2016 11:23 PM, John Wiegley wrote:

> What if we had a ADDENDUM file with the following contents:
>
>     <COMMIT ID><NEWLINE>
>     <REPLACEMENT LOG MESSAGE><NEWLINE>
>     <NEWLINE>
>
> Then we could teach vc-region-history and the ChangeLog generator to pay
> attention to it.

That's close to my suggestion, except it's using one file instead of 
many. I guess the question is what will work better: many small files in 
a directory, or a huge one.

Also note that a log message usually contains multiple newlines already.