Automating the maintenance of the ChangeLog file

[Joseph Myers]

On Thu, 29 Nov 2018, Florian Weimer wrote:

> I'm coming to this from a completely different angle.  I want a way for
> contributors and reviewers to have a *reliable* to determine what the
> patch will look like in the repository.  That includes both the diff
> *and* the commit message.

I think that should be the "git am" convention (subject header gives 
summary line for the patch after removing any [PATCH ...] tag, body of 
email is rest of commit message up to a "---" line or the patch itself).  
(And that convention should be appropriate for emails generated by any 
pull request / patch review system as well.)

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com