Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.6.2 && heads-up on upcoming changes

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Apr 21, 2005, 00:14 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504201710500.2344@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050420222815.GM19112@pasky.ji.cz>

Pasky,
 what do you think about this change to "git log"?

It makes it a _lot_ easier to parse the result, as it indents all the comments by two spaces, meaning that the header is clearly marked, and you can then do various 'sed'/'grep' things with nice normal regular expressions like '^parent' without having to worry about there being a line that starts with "parent" in the free-form part..

I also think the end result is more readable from a human standpoint, with indentation as the way to distinguish the headers from the commentary, and less ugly ASCII barfic's with "------" etc.

I'm doing a 2.6.12-rc3 release, so I care more than usual about the changelog ;)

		Linus

--- gitlog.sh: a496a864f9586e47a4d7bd3ae0af0b3e07b7deb8

--- a/gitlog.sh
+++ b/gitlog.sh
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ rev-tree $base | sort -rn | while read t
 				fi
 				;;
 			"")
-				echo; cat
+				echo; sed 's/^/  /'
 				;;
 			*)
 				echo $key $rest
@@ -36,5 +36,5 @@ rev-tree $base | sort -rn | while read t
 			esac
 
 		done
-	echo -e "\n--------------------------"
+	echo
 done