[bug-inetutils] Re: changelog policy after the switch to git

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:

> To preserve the current ChangeLog, I suggest to rename the file (in git)
> to Changelog.1 and make gitlog-to-changelog only generate entries from
> now on (git2cl knows how to do this, I dunno about gitlog-to-changelog
> but it should be easy to add).


gitlog-to-changelog supports a "--since=DATE" option to don't consider
commits older than the specified date.  If it will be decided to use git
commit messages to generate ChangeLog then your solution is fine without
any hack to the gitlog-to-changelog script.

Cheers,
Giuseppe