Re: On autogenerated ChangeLog

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 04/20/2009 10:00 AM, Dan Winship wrote:
> Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 09:06 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > > I like the more verbose format clearly showing which changes are big and which
> > > are small.
> > Well, I don't really disagree that its nice to know. However, all such
> > info is readily availible in git
>
> Right. People who want the full git history are also going to want to
> have a full checkout handy, and they can just use "git log" with
> whatever flags they like.
>
> Here's something to generate a fairly traditional-looking ChangeLog
> (though working on the assumption that you're doing the subject vs body
> split in your git commit messages):
>
> git log --date=short --pretty=format:"@@@@%cd  %an<%ae>%n%n%s%n%n%b" |
> perl -ne 'if (/^\s*$/) { if (!$blank) { print; $blank=1; } } else
> {$blank=0; if (!s/^@@@@//&&  !/^\t/) { print "\t"; } print; }'

I'd rather use awk.  Listing of files is also desired, since old ChangeLog 
files contained those.

behdad

> %cd is commit date, %an is Author name and %ae is Author email. The perl
> part indents every commit description line that doesn't already start
> with a tab, and removes duplicate blank lines. Assuming the lines were
> wrapped to 72 columns to start with, this will make them look too long,
> but won't actually cause anything new to wrap.
>
> -- Dan