Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Engster <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 17:19:30 +0100
> 
> Just go through the log and in your mind strip all the generated
> stuff (like filenames and affected symbols), and see what
> information provided by the *author* actually remains - it's usually
> very little, and often stating the obvious, instead of saying *why*
> something was done.

That's not what ChangeLog is supposed to tell.

> This makes our commit logs mostly useless for actually understanding how
> code evolved.

It's not intended for that.  The 'annotate' commands are for that.