That sounds like even I understand how to do it! Thanks, will give it a
try...

On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 at 10:59, Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> wrote:

> >>>>> On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 10:34:01 +0100, dalanicolai <
> dalanicolai@gmail.com> said:
>
>     >>
>     >> Basically, the VCS will ask you to type in a message describing each
>     >> commit you make.  You simply have to format that message like you
> would
>     >> an entry in a ChangeLog.
>
>
>     dalanicolai> I guess you mean that git will ask to enter a commit
> message? So I did that,
>     dalanicolai> but how does it get into the patch? (I am using magit,
> maybe I should check
>     dalanicolai> out vc, which is what I am doing now)
>
> The commit message is part of the patch. This is git, you
> should not skimp on committing locally :-) (you can always run 'git
> commit --amend' if you need to make more changes to the same patch)
>
> You then generate the patch using 'git format-patch HEAD~' or the
> equivalent magit command.
>
> Since youʼre using magit, you can start your commit, then run
> `magit-generate-changelog', which will insert a skeleton ChangeLog
> formatted entry based on the diffs of the files that youʼre
> committing. You then just need to write a one-line summary of the
> change, and describe the changes in the individual files.
>
> Robert
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>