Re: Replacement for cvs2cl, for generating ChangeLog

From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 27, 2007, 12:57 UTC
Message-ID: <200702271257.37437.andyparkins@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <877iu3q13r.fsf@latte.josefsson.org>

On Tuesday 2007 February 27 11:41, Simon Josefsson wrote:

> * How do I discard all locally modified or added files?  'cvs upd -C'
>   does some of that, but I've been using a tool 'cvsco' which quickly
>   restore a CVS checkout into a pristine state.

If I understand you correctly ("locally" has slightly ambiguous meaning when the repository is local as well), the following would restore a working directory to be identical to the current HEAD.

 git checkout -f HEAD

The "-f" means force - i.e. don't worry about discarding local changes :-)

> * Is there a tool that produce ChangeLog files in the GNU format,
>   based on the git logs?  Similar to the 'cvs2cl' tool.  The output
>   should look like:

Not that I know of, but git has some lovely log generation tools, so I'm sure it could be easily done with a snippet of perl - or perhaps a change to git's own log generator to support

 git-rev-list --pretty=gnucl

would be more appropriate.

Andy

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