Automating the maintenance of the ChangeLog file

[Florian Weimer]

* Zack Weinberg:

> Specifically, I propose:  Effective immediately, project policy
> requires the Git commit message for each commit to end with the full
> text of a traditional ChangeLog entry for that commit.

How can I see what is part of the proposed commit (message) and what is
not during patch review?

The patch part is clear, but the commit message and the ChangeLog entry
that is supposedly contained in that is unclear.

Thanks,
Florian