ChangeLog generation and git

[John Stowers <john stowers lists gmail com>]

Hi All,

I am converting my projects to auto-generate ChangeLog at dist time.
Looking at various GNOME modules, I cannot see a consensus on the
correct way to do this. Some projects simply do 

$git log > ChangeLog

while other use custom scripts [1]. Is there recommended way to do this?
Could some module maintainers please point me at the method they are
most proud of?

I will collect my findings and post on live.gnome.org when done.

Regards

John

[1]
http://github.com/cryos/avogadro/blob/master/scripts/gitlog2changelog.py