Sergey Poznyakoff <[email protected]> writes: > Giuseppe Scrivano <[email protected]> ha escrit: > >> how will the ChangeLog file be handled after the switch to git? Will it >> be maintained manually or will it be generated automatically using the >> git commit messages? > > I'd propose to generate it automatically using gitlog-to-changelog > module from gnulib. I've been using this approach in tar, mailutils and > other projects since migrating to Git and it has proved to create > accurate and well-formatted ChangeLogs, provided that a due discipline > is observed when creating commit messages.
+1. To preserve the current ChangeLog, I suggest to rename the file (in git) to Changelog.1 and make gitlog-to-changelog only generate entries from now on (git2cl knows how to do this, I dunno about gitlog-to-changelog but it should be easy to add). /Simon
