Re: ChangeLogs in commit messages

> Andreas Arnez pointed out that Joel previously mentioned generating
> the actual ChangeLog files from the commit messages, here:
> 
>   https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-01/msg00578.html
> 
> This sounds like an interesting idea, but we really would have to
> standardize on a particular format, and I think #1 (path and author-
> date headers) is the only option that could realistically work.
> If we standardize on this now (and put some checks on the server to
> weed out bad messages) then come December we'll have four months of
> commit messages we can use to check whether we can correctly replicate
> the ChangeLog files.  And, if we can, we can consider omitting the
> files from the repo and generating them as needed for tarballs.
> 
> How does this sound?

That sounds good to me. I do agree that a server-side "update"
check is needed to verify the CL entry is present in the revision
log and in the correct format.

-- 
Joel