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author | Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> | 2008-08-27 12:03:53 +0200 |
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committer | Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> | 2008-08-27 12:03:53 +0200 |
commit | f15a75046eaa4314a2ddefb126ab6987688eb41f (patch) | |
tree | 80abee10be755d6c9fd60126e5437046a4598e2b | |
parent | c74aadd07956fc78ad58dd4d2c2a3f2b2a0c5158 (diff) | |
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@@ -4,8 +4,17 @@ git2cl This is a quick'n'dirty tool to convert git logs to GNU ChangeLog format. -The tool expects output from 'git log --pretty --numstat --summary' on -stdin. Thus, typically you would use it as follows: +The tool invokes 'git log' internally unless you pipe a log to it. +Thus, typically you would use it as follows: + +........................................................................... +jas@mocca:~/src/libtasn1$ git2cl > ChangeLog +jas@mocca:~/src/libtasn1$ +........................................................................... + +If you don't want git2cl to invoke git log internally, you can use it +as a pipe. It needs the git log generated with --pretty --numstat and +--summary. You can use it as follows: ........................................................................... jas@mocca:~/src/libtasn1$ git log --pretty --numstat --summary | ~/src/git2cl/git2cl > ChangeLog @@ -16,9 +25,6 @@ The output format is specified by: link:http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Change-Logs.html[] -In the future, git2cl may be modified to run this command itself, -similar to how cvs2cl works. - My inspiration for writing this tool was the link:http://www.red-bean.com/cvs2cl/[cvs2cl] tool, which I am using in several projects. Replacing it is a necessary condition for me to @@ -31,6 +37,11 @@ The canonical home page for git2cl is: link:http://josefsson.org/git2cl/[] and its repository can be found at link:http://repo.or.cz/w/git2cl.git[]. +Credits +------- + +Luis Mondesi contributed several improvements. + Support ------- |