Re: Replacement for cvs2cl, for generating ChangeLog

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Feb 27, 2007, 19:27 UTC
Message-ID: <7v8xejflk2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702271336050.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>
>> * 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:
>> ...
> Let me hack something.

I do not know why you want to pile something like this into builtin-log. It would add maintenance burden and I do not see a gain from it.

One beauty of git is being scriptable. When somebody new asks for something like this, I think it is much more productive to demonstrate the power of scriptability than piling random crap in the core.