Re: April 7 cutover for generating ChangeLog automatically

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 20:25:37 +0300
> From: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> On 04/07/2015 05:27 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
>  > Create a top-level ChangeLog file with a single dummy entry, and the
> > next add-change-log-entry will automatically find that ChangeLog and
> > format the entry as required.
> 
> Nice hack. But won't this leave a lot of unneeded code in add-log.el?

add-log.el is not only for Emacs.  Or maybe I don't understand which
unneeded code did you have in mind.

> If we're not going to change it, should we have some setting in the 
> top-level .dir-locals.el that will force the proper ChangeLog location 
> automatically?

I don't see why not.