Re: ChangeLog entries

[phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord)]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
>> Cc: <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>> Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2015 16:46:20 +0100
>> 
>> They are both changes to trunk. feadec was a change *originally* made on
>> a branch, 45987 is a merge commit pulling feadec onto trunk also. I
>> wanted Nicolas to okay by change given that it was his code.
>
> Then please in the future use the format we follow, which is identical
> to ChangeLog entries: a function name in parentheses followed by the
> description of what changes were made in that function.

Ah, okay, will do that in future.


>
>> I'd rather feadec wasn't deleted. It's my first ChangeLog entry and I'm
>> really rather proud of it, pathetic as that might sound.
>
> I'm only talking about the form, not about the contents.  I suggest to
> edit ChangeLog.2 to make this entry into its correct form, and commit
> the change.

Is the ChangeLog not autogenerated from the commit message? This is what
I had assumed. I can change the ChangeLog.2 without changing the commit
message?

Phil