FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org>]

On Wed, 23 May 2012 09:10:33 +0100
Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com> wrote:

> > I also think ChangeLog is now redundant and could be phased out.
> >  It even creates a genuine problem when trying to cherry-pick
> > changes from master onto a maint branch when the ChangeLog was
> > modified in the same commit as something else.  Here's an example:
> >
> 
> Yes, now we don't change ChangeLog every time, git log is enough, but
> at the time you did the patch we was still in cvs -> git transition

How do I prepare a ChangeLog that details every commit since the
previous release?  

I'd like to continue keeping ChangeLog in the distribution even if it's
not a file managed by the SCM.  For a release, I derive the news and
readme files from ChangeLog.  

--jkl