Re: On autogenerated ChangeLog

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 10:00 -0400, 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; }'
> 
> %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.

You can rewrap with fmt --split-only.

That looks good though, but would be nice to have some reference to what
files changed. Makes it easy to search for that.