Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> writes:

> On 03/08/2016 10:56 PM, David Caldwell wrote:
>> Since notes seem like a no-go, what about taking the same approach but
>> using an empty commit to do it (`git commit --allow-empty`)? That way it
>> gets pushed and merged between branches just like normal.

> How would such commit indicate a relation to an existing commit? And after
> making it, you can't easily edit the result, you can only redo it fully.

What if we had a ADDENDUM file with the following contents:

    <COMMIT ID><NEWLINE>
    <REPLACEMENT LOG MESSAGE><NEWLINE>
    <NEWLINE>

Then we could teach vc-region-history and the ChangeLog generator to pay
attention to it.

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