Re: RFD: please drop ChangeLog updates

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> writes:

> <address@hidden> ha escrit:
>
>> Guile is distributed as a tarball, not a git repo.  Does it make sense to 
>> create the ChangeLog from the git log at make dist time?
>> 
>
> FWIW, there is a gnulib module for that purpose: gitlog-to-changelog.

Emacs' VC (since 22.2) can also do that (see (info "(emacs) Types of Log
File")).

That said, the ideal would be something like `add-change-log-entry' that
operates on Git logs instead of ChangeLogs, but there doesn't seem to be
anything like this.  DVC is said to support things like that, but it
doesn't seem to be well documented.

Thanks,
Ludovic.