Removing ChangeLog [Was Re: 2.26 hard freeze status]

[Alan Modra]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 09:52:19AM +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> To be clear, what is currently blocking us from not using the ChangeLog
> file?  A reliable way to attribute authors and not just committers?  We

git commit --amend --author="Joe Bloe <joe@bloe.org>" allows a
comitter to properly attribute authorship.  --date also lets you
change the commit date, so for example your own local commit that
languished without review for weeks can have the commit date updated
before pushing.  It might even be possible to have commit hooks modify
commit dates automatically.

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM