bug#19113: Generate a ChangeLog file from commit logs

[Paul Eggert]

On 11/20/2014 07:51 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Currently, we roll them over to keep the file below 1MB.

A 1 MB limit is too low nowadays.  Other GNU Emacs source files are as 
large as 6.8 MB and it's not a problem.  I suggest raising the size 
limit to 32 MB.   The issue of size is independent of the mechanism used 
to enforce it, of course.

Here's a more-radical suggestion: combine the existing ChangeLogs (there 
is about 24 MB worth) into a single ChangeLog.1 file at the top level.  
That would be under the 32 MB limit.  Or, if we prefer a smaller limit, 
16 MB say, we can create ChangeLog.1 and ChangeLog.2.  This suggestion 
is independent of the other suggestions.