[bug-inetutils] Re: changelog policy after the switch to git

[Simon Josefsson]

Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> writes:

> Giuseppe Scrivano <address@hidden> ha escrit:
>
>> how will the ChangeLog file be handled after the switch to git?  Will it
>> be maintained manually or will it be generated automatically using the
>> git commit messages?
>
> I'd propose to generate it automatically using gitlog-to-changelog
> module from gnulib. I've been using this approach in tar, mailutils and
> other projects since migrating to Git and it has proved to create
> accurate and well-formatted ChangeLogs, provided that a due discipline
> is observed when creating commit messages.

+1.

To preserve the current ChangeLog, I suggest to rename the file (in git)
to Changelog.1 and make gitlog-to-changelog only generate entries from
now on (git2cl knows how to do this, I dunno about gitlog-to-changelog
but it should be easy to add).

/Simon