Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jun 2017, #09; Fri, 30)

From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Jul 5, 2017, 00:17 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGZ79karazektmWg0nneYnfGU29dm8BtPUndOCobetH4xSy=tg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq8tk4loyr.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 11:02 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org> writes:
>
>> From: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
>>
>>> I am not sure what you are asking.  Is this the command you are
>>> looking for?
>>>
>>> $ grep -e "^[[*]" whats-cooking.txt
>>>
>> Ah, thanks.
>>
>> It does presume that one has extracted the email to the text file,
>> which is easier on some systems and mail clients than others ;-)
>
> Perhaps you would want to find an e-mail client that can handle text
> files better, then? ;-)
>
> If you are cloning and following along my tree from one of these
> places:
>
>     git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git/
>     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/
>     git://github.com/git/git.git/
>
> the 'todo' branch in these repositories keeps track of the
> whats-cooking.txt report (among other things), so you can also:
>
>     $ git cat-file -p origin/todo:whats-cooking.txt |
>       grep -e "^[[*]"
>
> to get the same effect.
>

FWIW: I have a script in my git dir,

cat git/cookreport.sh git -C Meta pull origin todo Meta/cook -w

with Meta being a repo tracking one of the URLs above.

I might add a | grep -e "^[[*]" or add some scripting to verbose report my own topics.

Thanks, Stefan