Re: [Monotone-devel] Generating the Changelog

[Nico -telmich- Schottelius]

Nathaniel Smith [Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 01:35:18PM -0700]:
> >===== Original Message From Nico -telmich- Schottelius
> >I want to generate my Changelog for gpm from the commit messages.
> >
> >Can I somehow extract the commit messages between commit
> >"a34345..." and "be545..."?
> 
> If you want to do it by hand, 'monotone log' is your friend.

Knew that..

> If you want to do it automatically in the future,

That was my aim. To incremently extract the log messages.

Still, this lacks some informations: What about the files
I changed/added/renamed? Is there no possibility
to display them of the top of each log entry?

> it's probably going to work 
> better to go the other way -- write a hook to pull monotone commit messages 
> out of the top of your ChangeLog.  That shouldn't be too hard...

Looks like a pretty good use for awk.

Nico

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