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> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
> From: Luis Machado <luis.machado@linaro.org>
> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:31:25 -0300
> 
> > I'm not sure I agree with your skepticism.  And OTOH, producing the
> > ChangeLog from Git logs takes mere seconds and wastes no development
> > time.  So I think on balance there's very little price to pay for
> > something that some people may value.  Why refuse to pay that small
> > price and humor those few people?
> 
> Are you proposing simply feeding the git log through the script and 
> saving that to a file? Even if the output is less detailed than the 
> ChangeLog entries we have now?

That's the idea, yes.  Of course, for such a generated ChangeLog to be
useful, the Git commit log messages should be informative enough.