ChangeLog's: do we have to?

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On 07/10/2018 08:19 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> 
> siddhesh wrote:
> 
>> [...]  We had discussed making addition of ChangeLog entries into the
>> commit message mandatory but the issue there is that commit logs
>> cannot be (or more precisely, should not be) modified after they're
>> pushed so errors in ChangeLog entries will remain.  [...]
> 
> In such a rare case, it would be possible to add a subsequent commit
> that carries the corrected text, but no other changes (--allow-empty).
> Or even revert the previous patch, then re-commit with a fixed text.
> Watch out for "perfect is the enemy of the good" syndrome here (as in
> the svn-git conversion).

I agree.

Siddhesh