On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 08:55:24PM +1100, Justin Clift wrote: > Hi all, > > Noticed an entry in a recent LWN.net article about PostgreSQL's > conversion to git. > > One of the things mentioned sounds relevant to us : > > Robert Haas has documented how to get commit summaries and sizes from > Git. He wrote a perl script (which Tom Lane improved) that allows you > to produce a changelog suitable for release notes from Git. > > > http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=blob_plain;f=src/tools/git_changelog;hb=HEAD > > > The changelog mention might be useful for us, as the PostgreSQL > changelog looks a bunch more useful than ours. > > The PostgreSQL ChangeLog: > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/release-9-0.html I don't believe that this corresponds to the output of the script you show above. This page is a hand-written change summary. That script above gives formatted commit logs. There's no enough structured info in commit messages to be able to generate a page like the one above. > Our ChangeLog: > http://libvirt.org/news.html > > > Mentioning this in case anyone has the time/inclination to look into > it. Any takers? :) I don't disagree that our news file is somewhat unreadable. We can't automate this though - it needs manual work to create it. Regards, Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://deltacloud.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list