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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I don't want to change the way I work; I just want to get better CVS
> log entries.  :-)
> 
> So if there's a an entry in the ChangeLog that mentions file x.el, and 
> x.el has changed, then I would like for something to extract the bits
> from the ChangeLog that talks about x.el and use that as the commit
> message for that file.

I might have missed a previous reference, but have you taken a look at
the excellent PCL-CVS frontend to CVS by Stefan Monnier?  It works
quite nicely and will lookup entries in the ChangeLog to provide
default comments.

Lee.