Re: Replacement for cvs2cl, for generating ChangeLog

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Hi,

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> It's been a while I looked at the coding guideline the last time, but I 
> think GNU convention wants you to say "filename (function)" when 
> applicable.  Which I happen to think makes much more sense than the 
> filename alone.
> 
> The information that would appear in "log -p --pretty" output needs to 
> be condensed to obtain such a log entry.  You _could_ still do that as a 
> built-in if you really wanted to, but I tend to think that it is much 
> better to implement such a specialized processing (for one thing, what a 
> function is depends on the programming language you are reading from) as 
> an external postprocessing filter that people can more easily tweak for 
> their specific needs.

It would be easy to write a consume() function (called with context 
== 0) which takes the information from the "@@" lines.

But the builtin -- as the script -- would suffer from the following 
problem:

-- snip --
+}
+
+static int new_function(void)
-- snap --

> That's why I keep stressing that one good thing about git is it is 
> easily scriptable.

IMHO it is easier to get right as a builtin. But as I said, I am not 
feeling too strongly about it.

Ciao,
Dscho

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