Richard Stallman wrote:
for the idea of using these diffs in a script to generate a
list of the entities changed in a given commit, the script needs to
deal with this quirk.
Want to write it?
No thanks. I have quite a bit of experience writing scripts to generate
ChangeLog files -- I daresay more experience than anyone else contributing to
this thread -- and this experience suggests that the proposed task is a lost
cause. We cannot automatically generate ChangeLogs as "good" as the ones written
by hand, and we shouldn't waste time trying. (By "good" I mean good for the
traditional purposes that ChangeLogs were used for. For most of us I think these
purposes are now largely superseded by version-control tools.)
