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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Replacement for cvs2cl, for generating ChangeLog
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:27:25 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v8xejflk2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702271336050.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:37:23 +0100 (CET)")

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.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-02-27 19:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-27 11:41 Replacement for cvs2cl, for generating ChangeLog Simon Josefsson
2007-02-27 12:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-27 12:37 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-27 14:40   ` Sergey Vlasov
2007-02-28 14:08     ` gitco - replacement for cvsco Simon Josefsson
2007-02-28 19:55       ` Yann Dirson
2007-02-28 21:31         ` Simon Josefsson
2007-02-27 15:19   ` Replacement for cvs2cl, for generating ChangeLog Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-28 14:12     ` Simon Josefsson
2007-02-27 19:27   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-02-27 19:45     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-27 20:54       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-27 12:57 ` Andy Parkins
2007-02-27 15:56   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-27 21:27   ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-02-27 21:50     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-27 22:22       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-27 22:12     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-28 14:27       ` Simon Josefsson

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