diff --git a/generateChangemarks/changemarks.py b/generateChangemarks/changemarks.py
index 665d3fa7ceaf5d04bc7043302b54797a2174e5ec..1d79427cf3c8b21ac81b16bd3ede93237de9b074 100644
--- a/generateChangemarks/changemarks.py
+++ b/generateChangemarks/changemarks.py
@@ -590,7 +590,7 @@ def main(args=None):
     parser.add_argument('mergeID',      help="Merge IID")
 
     pargs = parser.parse_args()
-    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
+    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
 
     # Process documents and print output