Re: [PATCH] Add --pretty=changelog

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mar 2, 2007, 10:03 UTC
Message-ID: <7vejo8ezde.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <87hct4roqa.fsf@latte.josefsson.org>

Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:

> The problem here is that CVS insert '*** empty log message ***' when
> you didn't supply a log message, and doing something intelligent with
> such logs would be useful.

If that is indeed the case then I suspect that cvs-to-git conversion should know about it and strip the artificial string.

In any case, as I already said a few times in this thread, I think what you did is the right approach --- to read from "git log --numstat" output and format the output to match the precise detail of your project's liking with an external script.

> But I want more than the oneline comment in the ChangeLog?  There is
> no size limit on ChangeLog messages, and having as much information as
> possible available is better.

I think this was purely underspecification when your request was passed to Johannes.

I've merged Johannes's gnucl series to 'next' but haven't pushed out, so I'll revert it.