Lessen focus on ChangeLog files, as opposed to change log entries.

This is in preparation for generating the former automatically
from the latter.
* admin/notes/bugtracker, admin/notes/copyright, admin/notes/newfile:
ChangeLog -> change log
* admin/notes/changelogs: Remove, merging old contents to ...
* admin/notes/repo: ... here.
* doc/emacs/maintaining.texi (Change Log): Mention that ChangeLog files may
be copied to or from a version control system.
* doc/emacs/trouble.texi (Sending Patches): Point to the commit messages.
* doc/lispref/intro.texi (Acknowledgments): ChangeLog file -> change log entries.
* doc/lispref/tips.texi (Library Headers): Emacs uses a version control system.
* etc/CONTRIBUTE: Give advice about git commit messages and how
to generate proposed patches containing them.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/admin/notes/copyright b/admin/notes/copyright
index 74aa73b0394..c5452c38037 100644
--- a/admin/notes/copyright
+++ b/admin/notes/copyright
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ author to make a non-trivial total. If so, make sure they have an
 assignment. If adding a whole file adjust the copyright statements in
 the file.
 
-2. When installing code written by someone else, the ChangeLog entry
+2. When installing code written by someone else, the commit
 should be in the name of the author of the code, not the person who
 installs it.  Also use commit's "--author" option.
 Do not install any of your own changes in the same commit.
@@ -115,8 +115,8 @@ else it is possible the file should not be in Emacs at all (please
 report!).
 
 Note that it seems painfully clear that one cannot rely on commit logs,
-or even ChangeLogs, for older changes. People often installed changes
-from others, without recording the true authorship.
+or even change log entries, for older changes. People often installed
+changes from others, without recording the true authorship.
 
 [For reference, most of these points were established via email with
 rms, 2007/1, "Copyright years".