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    maint: Stop generating ChangeLog from git · ce97c33a
    Andrea Bolognani authored
    
    
    Our ChangeLog is generated by basically redirecting the output
    of 'git log' into it so, as can be expected, it has only gotten
    bigger as development has progressed. As of today, its size has
    reached pretty much comical levels:
    
      $ du -sk ChangeLog
      11328 ChangeLog
    
    All of that for information *literally nobody* cares about: end
    users and distro maintainers have proper release notes lovingly
    compiled for them, while developers peruse the history either by
    calling 'git log' directly or through their favorite $EDITOR's
    git integration.
    
    Replacing the generated ChangeLog with a short message pointing
    interested parties to the git repository does not only reduce
    the size of the unpacked sources from 259904 KiB to 248576 KiB
    (~4% saving): from a quick test on my laptop, doing so reduces
    the size of the *compressed* release archive from 15140 KiB to
    12364 KiB (~18% saving) and also takes the time needed to run
    'make distcheck' down from 4:44 to 4:21 (~8% saving).
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJán Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
    ce97c33a
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