Re: [PATCH v2] Script to generate ChangeLog-like output

[Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>]

On 1/16/19 9:29 AM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> Note that the scripts do different things.  The gnulib script is for the
> case where the commit messages include ChangeLog-like content.  The glibc
> one is for the case where the commit messages do not try to list changed
> entities or what changed in those entities, but where an
> automatically-generated list of changed entities is considered good enough

Yes, the idea is that Emacs, coreutils, etc. will switch to the Glibc 
approach. Nobody prefers the current Gnulib approach, as far as I know; 
it's used only because the Gnulib script was easier to write.