Re: 9.5 release notes

On Thu, Aug  6, 2015 at 10:21:29PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 12:12:16AM +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
> >> Anyway, how about:
> >> format:%cd [%h] %<(8,trunc)%cN: %<(49,trunc)%s
> >> (which you can configure as pretty.pgmajor or so in .gitconfig btw.)
> 
> > Should we add this to src/tools/git_changelog?  It currently uses "git
> > log --format=fuller --date=iso".
> 
> I don't think that format can easily be merged into what git_changelog
> does: there would be no place to put branch or release annotations.
> But it was a real PITA to add that format into the alpha2 release notes,
> so we should probably think of a way to produce a suitable report.

Agreed.  If it is already output by git_changelog it would be much
easier to add them to the release notes.

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