Hi, I just finished cleaning up the neglected ChangeLog. We all (mostly me and grothoff) gravely neglected to update the file (no change since 0.12.1!) and it was quite a pain to go through the git logs this time.
In order to prevent this or at least make this easier in the future, it would be great if we could from now on settle on the following convention regarding commit messages: A. Commit messages prefixed with "- " Whenever you commit a simple bugfix, indentation fix or followup commit (forgot file etc) please add a "- " to your commit message. Example: "- forgot to actually add file" or "- indentation" B. Any other commit Please formulate your commit message in a way that makes it understandable what component was changed, why it was changed and how. Possibly with an issue number if applicable: Example: "GNS: Added new record type BB. Fixes #4223" or "Buildsystem: Fixed build breaking with gcc-10" I added a new script in contrib/scripts/changelog_delta.sh which will allow us to more or less automatically generate ChangeLog entries from git logs by only including commits in the format "B" starting from the last commit referenced in the existing ChangeLog. We should probably at some point add a section to the handbook where we can detail commit message information. Thanks and BR
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