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From: David Chanters <david.chanters@googlemail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: David Chanters <david.chanters@googlemail.com>
Subject: Generating GNU-style Changelog from git commits
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 23:46:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=j_Ge9h8+r8R-a5Fppan_2dtu5LA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

[Please Cc me on replies.  Thanks!]

Hi,

Some projects maintain a ChangeLog file, which looks something like this:

2011-01-01  David Chanters  <d.c@example.com>
        * foo/bar.c (some_function):
         Changed static variable in some_function to auto.

etc., etc.

Here "foo" is some directory relative to the top-level directory the
.git one is in.

These ChangeLog files are maintained manually, irrespective of the/any
revision control system in use.  I am wondering if it's possible if
the project is in Git to be able to automatically append to such a
ChangeLog file with each commit automatically, and have it formatted
in the style above.

Is this possible?  Is it a solved problem?  If not, and I wanted to
try myself, could someone point me at the git-specific tools I'd need
to know to use to achieve it?

TIA!
DC

             reply	other threads:[~2011-04-16 22:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-16 22:46 David Chanters [this message]
2011-04-17  0:53 ` Generating GNU-style Changelog from git commits Chris Packham
2011-04-17  1:47   ` Marcus D. Hanwell
2011-04-17 15:14     ` David Chanters

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