I wanted to try to install the newest version of git-merge-changelog. I found the webpage:
https://www.gnu.org/software/vc-changelog/ This has a 2025 copyright date on it, so can be presumed to be up to date. However, the link to download git-merge-changelog is broken: "git-merge-changelog can soon be downloaded from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/vc-changelog/git-merge-changelog-1.0.tar.gz. For other ways to obtain git-merge-changelog, please read How to get GNU Software." But the link doesn't work (goes to a "404 Not Found" page). I can't currently get onto https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/vc-changelog/ although this could be a general problem with Savannah. git-merge-changelog was part of Gnulib, although the project's NEWS and ChangeLog file report that it has been removed from Gnulib. I found with the version of git-merge-changelog I have installed, I would repeatedly lose ChangeLog entries, but this version is 5 years out-of-date, so I wanted to try a newer version: $ git-merge-changelog --version git-merge-changelog Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by Bruno Haible. Following the text in NEWS: 2025-08-05 git-merge-changelog This module is removed. Use the package from https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/vc-changelog.git instead. - I tried running "git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/vc-changelog.git/";, which worked to download the source code, but I would have expected clearer instructions. https://www.gnu.org/software/vc-changelog/ references an email address [email protected], but this email address is not listed at https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/ so it is not clear if that email address exists as a public mailing list or not. I'm happy to report that after upgrading to the new version of git-merge-changelog (building from a git clone), the program appears to work correctly.
