Re: Moving to git

[Neal H. Walfield]

> Here is one additional topic I want to confirm with you all before
> committing it: the duplication of ChangeLog snippets and commit log
> messages is a pain.  However, it is not mandatory to maintain ChangeLog
> files in the VCS sources -- it's fine with the GNU Coding Standards to
> only create ChangeLog files for distribution tarballs (where one doesn't
> have access to the VCS logs anymore).  GNU Coreutils is already using
> this scheme, and I got it confirmed on the GNU-internal maintainers'
> mailing list that this is indeed fine.  When needed, the ChangeLog files
> would be created automatically from the VCS commit messages.  (We can
> steal all the mechanisms from GNU Coreutils.)

> Any objections?

I support this.