How does Emacs generate its ChangeLog?

How does Emacs generate its ChangeLog?

[Akib Azmain Turja]

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I'm writing a package, and it's pretty stable now to use.  (Not
published on the internet.)  Now I want a ChangeLog, according to GNU
Coding Standards.  Emacs generates it nicely with git log, and I'd also
like to do something similar, possible taking some code from Emacs
source.  Any pointers?

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Re: How does Emacs generate its ChangeLog?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>
> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 01:04:50 +0600
> 
> I'm writing a package, and it's pretty stable now to use.  (Not
> published on the internet.)  Now I want a ChangeLog, according to GNU
> Coding Standards.  Emacs generates it nicely with git log, and I'd also
> like to do something similar, possible taking some code from Emacs
> source.  Any pointers?

See build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog, and its invocation in top-level
Makefile.in.