Document that git is needed.
Be clearer about the entry sort key being an entry sort key, not just
a merge order. Be clearer about what "merge order" means.
Signed-off-by: Gilles Peskine <Gilles.Peskine@arm.com>
Changelog entry files were listed in reverse alphabetical order of the
file name, by happenstance. Now, changelog entry files are listed in
the order in which the changes were merged. More precisely: look for
the git commit where the entry file was created, and look where this
commit was merged into the current branch. List older merges first.
List never-merged commits in date order after all the merged ones.
List never-committed files in file timestamp order after all the
committed ones.
Signed-off-by: Gilles Peskine <Gilles.Peskine@arm.com>
Check that no line from any of the input files was lost.
This is not perfect for several reasons.
It doesn't check that the content goes to the desired location.
It doesn't check that sections are created as necessary.
It doesn't support whitespace normalization that the parsing code does.
But it's a good start.
assemble_changelog.py reads changelog entries from ChangeLog.d/*.md
and merges them into ChangeLog.md.
The changelog entries are merged into the first version in
ChangeLog.md. The script does not yet support creating a new version
in ChangeLog.md.
The changelog entries are merged in alphabetical order of the file
names. Future versions of this script are likely to adopt a different
order that reflects the git history of the entries.