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From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha•warpmail.net>
To: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett•org>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Pretty format specifier for commit count?
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 14:54:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54BD0C85.1070001@drmicha.warpmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150119012926.GA24004@thin>

Josh Triplett schrieb am 19.01.2015 um 02:29:
> I'd like to use git-log to generate a Debian changelog file (with one
> entry per commit), which has entries like this:
> 
> package-name (version-number) unstable; urgency=low
> 
>  * ...
> 
>  -- Example Person <person@example•org>  RFC822-date
> 
> Since I'm intentionally generating one entry per commit, I can generate
> *almost* all of this with git log:
> 
> git log --pretty='format:packagename (FIXME) unstable; urgency=low%n%n  * %s%n%w(0,4,4)%+b%w(0,0,0)%n -- %an <%ae>  %aD%n'
> 
> This produces entries like this:
> 
> packagename (FIXME) unstable; urgency=low
> 
>   * Example change
> 
>     Long description of example change.
> 
>  -- Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett•org>  Thu, 8 Jan 2015 16:36:52 -0800
> 
> packagename (FIXME) unstable; urgency=low
> 
>   * Initial version
> 
>  -- Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett•org>  Thu, 8 Jan 2015 16:36:51 -0800
> 
> Would it be possible to add a format specifier producing a commit count,
> similar to that provided by git-describe?  Such a specifier would allow
> filling in the version number in the format above (replacing the FIXME).
> (Note that the version numbers need to monotonically increase; otherwise
> I would just use the commit hash as the version numer.)
> 
> - Josh Triplett
> 

Can you be a bit more specific about the type count that you are after?
"git describe" counts commits since the most recent tag (possibly within
a specific subset of all tags). Is that your desired format?

(I won't suggest scripting around rev-list, describe and log -1 because
you know that already...)

Michael

  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-19 13:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-19  1:29 Pretty format specifier for commit count? Josh Triplett
2015-01-19 13:54 ` Michael J Gruber [this message]
2015-01-20  1:17   ` Josh Triplett
2015-01-20 21:49     ` Jeff King
2015-01-20 23:11       ` josh
2015-01-22 10:10         ` Michael J Gruber
2015-01-22 12:52           ` Jeff King

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