Re: [PATCH 2/2] gitlog-to-changelog: support 'tiny change' commits.

[Jim Meyering]

Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> I think 'Copyright-paper-required: No' is still the best compromise here for
> the reasons stated earlier in the thread.
>
> Okay to push?
>
> The FSF require that all non-trivial patches to its projects be
> accompanied by appropriate paperwork, or that any patches that are
> applied without that paperwork are marked as such in the
> ChangeLog.
> * gitlog-to-changelog: Convert `Copyright-paperwork-required: No'
> lines from the git log message to standard `(tiny change)'
> ChangeLog annotation.
> * scripts/git-hooks/commit-msg: Diagnose redundant or malformed
> Copyright-paperwork-required lines.

This is setting FSF policy, and commit logs (at least on "master")
are typically immutable, so I'd rather you defer pushing until
the maintainer's guide endorses some precise syntax.  I don't want
to end up mandating one syntax and then find out later that some
other syntax is preferred.  For example, I have a slight preference
for a semantically positive tag like "Copyright-paperwork-exempt:".