Re: Replacement for cvs2cl, for generating ChangeLog

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 27, 2007, 20:54 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702272152460.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702272040440.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Hi,

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > 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".

Side note. I am not a good enough Perl/Shell/Python hacker to know how to wrap text correctly to reflect GNU ChangeLog format. That is why I wrote print_wrapped_text() in the first place.

Ciao, Dscho