Re: master cbef1e9 2/3: ; make change-history-commit

[Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>]

On 04/15/2015 10:39 AM, Glenn Morris wrote:
> maybe it is actually easier for people to correct the generated C'log,
> rather than figure out what commit log they should have written.
>

Yes, I think it's more natural.

I've done it the other way, with Coreutils, and the problem is that 
hacking on a ChangeLog edit script is one more thing for developers to 
learn, and that's a barrier to fixing ChangeLog history.  It's OK for 
Coreutils, whose few developers have been coached to write 
consistent-format commit messages and where people don't much care about 
a ChangeLog typo unless it's something important (like proper 
attribution).  It wouldn't work as well for for Emacs, which has dozens 
of developers not all of who are on the same page with regards to commit 
message format, and which has a greater emphasis on typo-free ChangeLog 
history.

Anyway, I installed the two changes we discussed, so we should be better 
off than we were before.