Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages

[Paul Eggert]

Jorgen Schaefer wrote:
> Is there at least some consensus to merge the various ChangeLog
> files into a single one, though?

No, sorry, Stefan didn't like that idea much.  FWIW, he was more positive about 
generating ChangeLogs automatically.

I can think of one improvement here, though, which we can make regardless of 
whether ChangeLogs are generated automatically.  For changes that affect files 
in different directories, I'd like to put the corresponding commit message into 
the ChangeLog at the closest ancestor to all the directories, instead of 
breaking the message into pieces and scattering it into little ChangeLog bits 
here and there that have to be pieced together later if I want to understand the 
change.  That would make my life easier, for both writing and reading the source 
code.