[PATCH v2] Script to generate ChangeLog-like output
Paul Eggert
eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Wed Jan 16 17:44:00 GMT 2019
On 1/16/19 9:29 AM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> Note that the scripts do different things. The gnulib script is for the
> case where the commit messages include ChangeLog-like content. The glibc
> one is for the case where the commit messages do not try to list changed
> entities or what changed in those entities, but where an
> automatically-generated list of changed entities is considered good enough
Yes, the idea is that Emacs, coreutils, etc. will switch to the Glibc
approach. Nobody prefers the current Gnulib approach, as far as I know;
it's used only because the Gnulib script was easier to write.
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