Re: Re: A request: Moving away from ChangeLog

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On May 21, 2010, at 11:41 AM, John Wiegley wrote:

> I just remembered that I'd written a script for building a properly  
> formatted ChangeLog directly from Git history:
>
>    http://github.com/jwiegley/git-scripts/blob/master/git-changelog
>
> This makes it trivial to build ChangeLog entries for a range of  
> commits, suitable for submission to Emacs.  It may need a bit more  
> work to be production-ready, but it can already produce a ChangeLog  
> for all of org-mode.

If that is a possibility, then I am all game.  The ONLY reason why I  
was making these entries is because Emacs requires me to make them.   
If we can use a script to create it just for the moment when we sync  
up with Emacs - GREAT.

Can I have a look at one of those ChangeLog files created with the  
script?  Just to get the idea?  Do we need to do something special in  
the git commit message?

If this works, lets stop writing ChangeLog.

This will make most merges working without hickups, finally.  And it  
will make us, hopefully, write better commit messages.

- Carsten