Automating the maintenance of the ChangeLog file

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On 21/11/18 9:56 PM, Jeff Law wrote:
> But the insanity of actually putting it into a ChangeLog file, dealing
> with rebases/conflicts as a result is just silly, particularly when we
> could just include the data in the commit message and have tools to
> extract them from commit messages for those who find reading ChangeLogs
> useful (such as myself).

In addition to just the inconvenience of rebases in our own trees, the 
requirement of maintaining the file prevents us from using any sort of 
patch review tools because none of our commits correspond to any patches 
we send.  The patchwork deployment for glibc was effectively useless 
because of this; having to manually close out patches instead of them 
auto-closing on triggers is a major inconvenience.

Siddhesh