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} /* Because IE6 child selector is broken. */ div.olist2 ol { list-style-type: lower-alpha; } div.olist2 div.olist ol { list-style-type: decimal; } </style> <title>git2cl</title> </head> <body> <div id="header"> <h1>git2cl</h1> </div> <div id="preamble"> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="para"><p>This is a quick'n'dirty tool to convert git logs to GNU ChangeLog format.</p></div> <div class="para"><p>The tool invokes <em>git log</em> internally unless you pipe a log to it. Thus, typically you would use it as follows:</p></div> <div class="literalblock"> <div class="content"> <pre><tt>jas@mocca:~/src/libtasn1$ git2cl > ChangeLog jas@mocca:~/src/libtasn1$</tt></pre> </div></div> <div class="para"><p>If you don't want git2cl to invoke git log internally, you can use it as a pipe. It needs a git log generated with —pretty —numstat and —summary. You can use it as follows:</p></div> <div class="literalblock"> <div class="content"> <pre><tt>jas@mocca:~/src/libtasn1$ git log --pretty --numstat --summary | ~/src/git2cl/git2cl > ChangeLog jas@mocca:~/src/libtasn1$</tt></pre> </div></div> <div class="para"><p>The output format is specified by:</p></div> <div class="para"><p><a href="http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Change-Logs.html">http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Change-Logs.html</a></p></div> <div class="para"><p>My inspiration for writing this tool was the <a href="http://www.red-bean.com/cvs2cl/">cvs2cl</a> tool, which I have been using in several projects. Replacing it was necessary to seriously consider switching from CVS to GIT for my projects.</p></div> <div class="para"><p>The canonical home page for git2cl is: <a href="http://josefsson.org/git2cl/">http://josefsson.org/git2cl/</a> and its repository can be found at <a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/git2cl.git">http://repo.or.cz/w/git2cl.git</a>.</p></div> </div> </div> <h2 id="_credits">Credits</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="para"><p>Luis Mondesi contributed several improvements.</p></div> </div> <h2 id="_support">Support</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="para"><p>Try talking to <a href="mailto:simon@josefsson.org">Simon Josefsson</a>.</p></div> </div> <div id="footer"> <div id="footer-text"> Last updated 2008-08-27 12:42:17 CEST </div> </div> </body> </html>