prepare-Changelog.pl for git

[Donnie Berkholz]

Matthieu Herrb wrote:
> Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>> Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>>> Whenever you commit to a repo, please double-check whether there's a
>>> Makefile.am rule to generate the ChangeLog on `make dist`. If not,
>>> delete the ChangeLog and copy the rule over from libX11.
>>
>> BTW, I just added another fix to this rule courtesy of Aaron Plattner,
>> so make sure you pull the latest stuff before copying it.
>>
> 
> The rule used in many commited Makefile.am doesn't work if building with
> builddir != srcdir. I'd suggest to use:
> 
> ChangeLog:
>     GIT_DIR=${srcdir}/.git git-log > ChangeLog

Is that a relevant use case? It only matters when running 'make
distcheck' which automatically does a builddir != srcdir build already.

Thanks,
Donnie

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