Re: Replacement for cvs2cl, for generating ChangeLog

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 27, 2007, 12:37 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702271336050.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <877iu3q13r.fsf@latte.josefsson.org>

Hi,

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Simon Josefsson wrote:

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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.

The command in git is called "git reset --hard". Beware: this really, 
really loses _all_ local changes. And no need to worry when it completes 
much faster than you expected it to... See "git status" to see that it 
worked, indeed.

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> * 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:
> 
> 2007-02-22  Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
> 
> 	* link-warning.h, gl/getaddrinfo.c, gl/gnulib.mk, gl/string_.h,
> 	gl/m4/gnulib-comp.m4, gl/m4/string_h.m4, lgl/Makefile.am,
> 	lgl/snprintf.c, lgl/snprintf.h, lgl/stdio_.h, lgl/string_.h,
> 	lgl/unistd_.h, lgl/m4/gnulib-comp.m4, lgl/m4/intdiv0.m4,
> 	lgl/m4/snprintf.m4, lgl/m4/stdio_h.m4, lgl/m4/string_h.m4,
> 	lgl/m4/unistd_h.m4: Update.

Let me hack something.

Ciao, Dscho