Using the vcs_to_changelog.py script

[Simon Marchi]

> On Thu, 2020-02-13 at 11:33 +1030, Alan Modra wrote:
>> Does this satisfy the FSF legal requirements?  "Who changed what"
>> won't be accurate unless committers remember to set the author
>> properly on commits made for other people.

This naturally happens when using the typical git workflow.  If someone sends
a patch using git-send-email and somebody else applies it using git-am, the
authorship information reflects the original author's identity.

We should always encourage people to send patches using git-send-email (or
worst case, git-format-patch) and not plain diffs, for this reason and many
others.

On 2020-02-12 9:29 p.m., Jeff Law wrote:
> RMS and/or the FSF blessed it for glibc a while back.  So it'd seem
> suitable for other projects under the FSF umbrella.  I'm hoping we'll
> make the same change for GCC, but there's some inertia to push through
> :(

That is exactly what I presumed and what I am hoping for.

But the proposed changes to standards.texi do specifically mention that using
this script is fine (the script name changed, but I am fairly sure it's
referring to that script):

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-standards/2020-01/msg00000.html

Simon