From: Zack Brown <zacharyb@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 04:20:36 GMT
Subject: Re: Associating tags with changelogs
Message-ID: <218b69370805042120p533cc100r53d5d96888843273@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <436ECC5F-0664-4379-8F69-0121AE5F496E@sb.org>

This seems to be working for me. I just call git-describe for each log
entry before I enter it into the database.

Thanks!
Zack

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 11:56 PM, Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> wrote:
> Sounds like you want git describe --contains.
>
>  -Kevin Ballard
>
>
>
>  On May 4, 2008, at 11:40 PM, Zack Brown wrote:
>
>
> > I'm using git to extract changelog entries into a MySQL database, and
> > I want to be able to associate each changelog with the official
> > release in which it first appears. I can use "git-tag -l" to see a
> > list of the tags, and I can use "git-log tag1..tag2" to view all the
> > changelogs between two tags, but neither of these are exactly what I
> > want.
> >
> > My script keeps track of the most recent changelog entry that it has
> > processed into the MySQL database, so the next time it runs, it picks
> > up from that entry, using "`git-log sha1string.. --pretty=fuller", and
> > inserts only the changelogs since that entry into the database.
> >
> > What I'd like is to still be able to get only the entries since that
> > sha1 string, while somehow identifying the tag of the release
> > encompassing each entry listed in that set. Then when I input the
> > changelog into my database, I can associate it with the proper
> > official release (or -rc candidate).
> >
> > Is there a command to do that? I don't see anything in the man pages for
> it.
> >
>
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>  Kevin Ballard
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>  kevin@sb.org
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>
>



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Zack Brown