On Wednesday 15 January 2014 20:41:16 Fred Cooke wrote:
> Fair call, though the commit message format requirements might become
> a bit onerous if done this way, OR, generation might generate quite a
> few errors/misprints. I guess the rate of commits is pretty low, and
> commit size pretty big, on average, for binutils, though.

commit message format isn't really any more onerous than maintaining a 
ChangeLog file by hand

i don't know how other projects handle typos/updates.  maybe they just live 
with them.  i haven't looked too closely at the scripts in use, but should be 
easy to ask.
-mike