Re: On autogenerated ChangeLog

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 16:47 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Le samedi 18 avril 2009, à 21:54 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod a écrit :
> > Hey,
> >
> > I first wrote Makefile.am magic for Pango to generate ChangeLog from git 
> > on demand.  Those macros have been modified and gathered in  
> > http://live.gnome.org/Git/ChangeLog to only generate ChangeLog for "make  
> > dist".  I wonder what people actually want to have, so I can work on 
> > canonical macros to copy across projects (and eventually find a better 
> > way to distribute).  Pros and cons:
> 
> Can we also agree that for modules dropping ChangeLog, we move the old
> ChangeLog file to ChangeLog.pre-git?
> 
> (and if we can put the commit messages guidelines in ChangeLog instead
> as done in some modules like seahorse)

That's a good way to make ChangeLog messages appear along with your
instructions, some people use scripts...