From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 19:18:31 GMT
Subject: Re: pretty format can't work on cron job
Message-ID: <201011072018.31740.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <01c101cb7d6c$fd053cf0$f70fb6d0$@com>

Chen WANG wrote:
> $ cat /home/wangchen/kps_update
> #!/bin/bash
> su wangchen -

What is this 'su' supposed to do?  AFAICS you would have to run
another script with 'su' if you really want to change user.

> git log 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2.. -M --date=short --pretty=format:"Author: %aN <%ae>; Date: %ad" --shortstat --dirstat --no-merges >/tmp/ChangeLog-all
[%aN does not expand to anything within the cron runs]

Also, what git version(s) do you have installed?  %aN appeared in
1.5.6.4 and 1.6.0, so it is entirely possible that the $PATH within
your cronjob runs an older version which fails to expand it to
anything.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch