Re: Script to generate ChangeLogs automatically

[Richard Stallman]

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  >   And so tools such as "git blame" and "git log -L", where 
  > you examine the code, run a command based on the form the entity in 
  > question takes, and possibly then run other variant commands depending on 
  > the results from the first command, are entirely suitable for the problem 
  > of mapping from entities to commits that changed them.

We have already established that "git blame" and "git log -L" fail to
do this job reliably.  Please stop trying to argue that unreliable is
good enough.

Another tool, similar but not identical to those, could do the job.

Fortunately, a good candidate is now being developed.  With some
attention to the complex cases, we could have a tool that is entirely
adequate.  Then we could stop writing lists of entity names by hand,
and not sacrifice anything in future maintenance.

People, how about helping to finish the job?

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)