From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:03:25 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add --pretty=changelog Message-ID: <7vejo8ezde.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <87hct4roqa.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> Simon Josefsson 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.