Re: Replacement for cvs2cl, for generating ChangeLog

[Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 2007 February 27 11:41, Simon Josefsson wrote:

> * How do I discard all locally modified or added files?  'cvs upd -C'
>   does some of that, but I've been using a tool 'cvsco' which quickly
>   restore a CVS checkout into a pristine state.

If I understand you correctly ("locally" has slightly ambiguous meaning when 
the repository is local as well), the following would restore a working 
directory to be identical to the current HEAD.

 git checkout -f HEAD

The "-f" means force - i.e. don't worry about discarding local changes :-)

> * 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:

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

would be more appropriate.


Andy
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