From: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu•com>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Import git log into a spreadsheet
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 15:06:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54ECD9A9.4090507@ubuntu.com> (raw)
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I'm trying to import a git log into a spreadsheet. I used a simple
- --pretty=format: switch to select the fields I wanted and separate
them with commas to generate a CSV file that can be imported. The
message body, however, is presenting a problem. The first problem is
that it contains newlines itself, which normally signal the start of a
new record. It turns out that even when quoting the field, MS Excel
still fails to import it properly ( good grief MS ), but openoffice
calc does. The second problem is that the body itself may contain quotes.
I can't figure out a good way to deal with these quotes. It seems
that replacing them with a pair of quotes should make the CSV valid,
but how can I replace only those quotes internal to the field without
replacing the quotes that actually bracket it? Is it possible to have
git log use a NULL terminator between records instead of a new line?
Or is there a better way of going about this?
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2015-02-24 20:06 Phillip Susi [this message]
2015-02-24 20:08 ` Import git log into a spreadsheet Junio C Hamano
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