Re: Replacement for cvs2cl, for generating ChangeLog

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Feb 27, 2007, 12:23 UTC
Message-ID: <7vzm6zg56d.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <877iu3q13r.fsf@latte.josefsson.org>

Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:

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> Hi!  I'm considering switching to git for my projects (shishi, gsasl,
> gnutls, libtasn1, opencdk, ...) and I have some questions:
>
> * How do I discard all locally modified or added files?  'cvs upd -C'
>   does some of that, but I've been using a tool 'cvsco' which quickly
>   restore a CVS checkout into a pristine state.

"git reset --hard" (RTFM).

> * 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:

No, but that should probably be trivial. I would suggest you postprocess "git log --pretty --numstat --summary" output, which is probably the most parsable.