bug#19113: Generate a ChangeLog file from commit logs

[Jan D.]

Hi.

Can this generation of ChangeLog handle multiple or different authors in the 
ChangeLog, i.e. generate something like these:

2013-05-07  YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu  <mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>
            Jan Djärv  <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>

        * Makefile.in (XRANDR_LIBS, XRANDR_CFLAGS, XINERAMA_LIBS)
        (XINERAMA_CFLAGS): New macros.
        (ALL_CFLAGS, LIBES): Use them.

How would a commit message look like to get this in the ChangeLog?

Also, how would a commit message look like if you wanted another author in the 
ChangeLog that is different from the one checking in?  Is it enough to set 
Author:?

Thanks,

        Jan D.

> 26 nov 2014 kl. 06:38 skrev Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>:
> 
> Paul Eggert wrote:
>> combine the existing ChangeLogs (there is
>> about 24 MB worth) into a single ChangeLog.1 file at the top level.
> 
> I implemented this, along with some other fixes (notably, getting a proper 
> copyright notice into the generated ChangeLog file), and am attaching the 
> corresponding patches.  I would like to install this into the emacs-24 branch 
> and then merge that into the master.
> 
> There are three patches.  Patches 1 and 3 are so large that I'm just 
> attaching summaries here.  (Patch 1 is essentially the same as before.)  You 
> can get the full patches temporarily from here:
> 
> http://cs.ucla.edu/~eggert/emacs/
> <0001-Rename-old-ChangeLog-files-to-prepare-for-gitlog-to-.patch><0002-Generate-a-ChangeLog-file-from-commit-logs.patch><0003-Combine-all-historical-ChangeLogs-into-ChangeLog.1.patch>