Inspired by the recent application of Ben's patch. I don't know if it is worth trying to omit mention of HACKING from the generated ChangeLot. gitlog-to-changelog has an --ignore-matching option that could be used to filter out all commits that are git-only (in which case I would retitle these commits to match that pattern, as well as modify Makefile.am to specify the option). But as far as I could tell, the gitlog-to-changelog --amend option can't be used to specify commits to completely ignore (and even if it could, how do you ignore the very commit that is tweaking that file, given that you don't know the commit id until after the tweak is committed).
Eric Blake (3): maint: Merge HACKING and README-hacking maint: Tweak HACKING for generated ChangeLog maint: Allow amendments to git log when generating ChangeLog HACKING | 153 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ Makefile.am | 6 ++- README-hacking | 139 --------------------------------------------------- 3 files changed, 144 insertions(+), 154 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 README-hacking -- 2.9.3