• We need some way to fix or add to changelog entries later. For example, to fix spelling, or to close a bug report that was not originally known to be related.

• I don't see the value of the Changelog field. What would we use that information for?

• I think we need an equivalent of Gbp-Dch: ignore.

• Changelog-summary doesn't seem to be quite the right name. Maybe Changelog-heading?

@benh

We need some way to fix or add to changelog entries later. For example, to fix spelling, or to close a bug report that was not originally known to be related.

I don't know any way that would make that work and also work with backports of MR, except of fixing up the changelog in the end. Even if you add all of this into files, as was proposed, the fixup will be outside of the merge request.

What might work: Append this to the merge request itself. But even then, the update might be applied to one branch but not the other.

I don't see the value of the Changelog field. What would we use that information for?

I think we need an equivalent of Gbp-Dch: ignore.

You found it. The information is just inverted. Only marked commits are added, not unignored ones.