I've released vc-dwim-1.8: https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8776
And that renders part of README-release obsolete, so I propose to modernize it with this: >From 6bb0b403363316b8958f4686141561ee20d088ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 09:30:31 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] maint: update README-hacking now that vc-dwim accepts --init * README-hacking: I've just released vc-dwim-1.8, so we can improve the documentation to reference its --initialize option here. --- README-hacking | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README-hacking b/README-hacking index 998a877..6cbabae 100644 --- a/README-hacking +++ b/README-hacking @@ -74,9 +74,8 @@ appropriate bug-reporting address as reported by the --help option of each program. One way to do this is to use vc-dwim <http://www.gnu.org/software/vc-dwim/>), as follows. - Run the command "vc-dwim --help", copy its definition of the - "git-changelog-symlink-init" function into your shell, and then run - this function at the top-level directory of the package. + Run the command "vc-dwim --initialize" from the top-level directory + of this package's git-cloned hierarchy. Edit the (empty) ChangeLog file that this command creates, creating a properly-formatted entry according to the GNU coding standards -- 2.9.3
