Automating the maintenance of the ChangeLog file

[J William Piggott]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2018, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 2:29 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
>> * 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?
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> If we take `git format-patch` as a baseline, that means the subject
> line is the first line of the commit message, and everything in the
> email body up to the first line of the actual diff is the commit
> message. But sometimes one wants to say things in the email that
> aren't going to go into the commit message.  I don't have a good
> suggestion for how to handle that, ...

Git already has a way to do that. The submitter can write anything they want to
between the '---' and 'diff ...'

That is '---' ends the commit message.

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