Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?

[Paul Eggert]

On 03/10/2016 01:23 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> Maintaining a ChangeLog file in the repository is one way to do this,
> but if it has flaws in the case of merging, can we design another mechanism
> for the job that solves the problems with merging?

Yes, one such approach (used by coreutils) was proposed a couple of days 
ago, in the patch archived here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-03/msg00391.html

Eli dislikes the way this supports patching old commit messages, and has 
proposed to instead use 'git replace'; we'd still use the abovementioned 
patch, but would patch old commit messages in a different way. We 
haven't yet tested this suggestion.