Re: Replacement for cvs2cl, for generating ChangeLog

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 27, 2007, 22:12 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702272227500.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <200702272227.05244.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Robin Rosenberg wrote:

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> tisdag 27 februari 2007 13:57 skrev Andy Parkins:
> 
> > Not that I know of, but git has some lovely log generation tools, so 
> > I'm sure it could be easily done with a snippet of perl - or perhaps a 
> > change to git's own log generator to support
> > 
> >  git-rev-list --pretty=gnucl
> > 
> gir-rev-list ??
> 
> Extend git-shortlog with --gnucl instead. What seems missing is the 
> grouping of changes by date. git-shortlog only groups by author.

No, the revision walker groups by commit (not by date, but you don't want that anyway). git-shortlog works _on top_ of the revision walker.

The sane thing _is_ to use the revision walker.

Given the amount of projects using cvs2cl (I personally saw a couple), I expect a couple of people to speak up in favour of including support for --pretty=cl or =changelog or =gnucl or whatever.

Ciao, Dscho