Re: gitlog-to-changelog and extra blurbs

[Stefano Lattarini]

On Wednesday 07 December 2011, Werner Koch wrote:
> Hi,
>
Hello Werner.

> I started to use gitlog-to-changelog for my projects.  However, there is
> a little annoying thing: Every so often I like to add longer blurbs to
> the git commit log which I don't want to see in a ChangeLog.  Examples
> are quotes from discussions, benchmarks or a longer description.
> 
> I came up with this little patch which allows me to do this quite
> easily.  The marker used are two dashes at the begin of a line (similar
> to the mail sig line delimiter).  Given the rules for ChangeLogs, it is
> very unlikely that this pattern will ever show up in a real ChangeLog.
> 
> Any opinions?
>
I'd rather not have gitlog-to-changelog do this unconditionally;
making such a behaviour conditional to a command-line option would
be better IMHO.

Regards,
  Stefano