Re: Replacement for cvs2cl, for generating ChangeLog

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 27, 2007, 19:45 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702272040440.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7v8xejflk2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> >
> >> * 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:
> >> ...
> > Let me hack something.
> 
> I do not know why you want to pile something like this into builtin-log.  
> It would add maintenance burden and I do not see a gain from it.
> 
> One beauty of git is being scriptable.  When somebody new asks for 
> something like this, I think it is much more productive to demonstrate 
> the power of scriptability than piling random crap in the core.

Well, I briefly considered writing a little Perl script using the output of "git log --stat".

BUT. GNU ChangeLog is a really often asked-for feature. And before risking some Haskell script producing GNU ChangeLog output in git.git, which I have to rewrite as plugin eventually anyway, I thought that I include it right away.

Demonstrating the ease of Git's core, and hacking on Git was a benefit from it.

As were the first two patches: I think print_wrapped_text() only now got usable. And show_date() with an enum should be an improvement, too.

Anyway, it was the third time I read about such a request, and I had a go at it. If you don't like it, don't take it. I have no problems with that.

Ciao, Dscho