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Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 21:09:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: small request regarding commits in binutils-gdb.git
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To: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
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> From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:57:47 -0500
> Cc: fred.cooke@gmail.com,
>  gdb-patches@sourceware.org,
>  brobecker@adacore.com,
>  binutils@sourceware.org
> 
> > If we are going to generate ChangeLog files, this discussion is still
> > relevant, since the text needs to be formatted according to ChangeLog
> > rules.
> 
> not necessarily.  there's two options:
> 	- just use `git log --stat` and pipe it into a ChangeLog.  this isn't a 
> "GNU ChangeLog", but it is a ChangeLog

This is still a GNU project, isn't it?  We still adhere to GNU coding
standards, right?  So I don't think we can avoid producing GNU-style
ChangeLog files.