When running the Announce script in a terminal, the git shortlog will
open a pager, which is confusing as it leads to omission of the rest
of the message inside the pager. Do not page the output to avoid confusion.
While at it, add a basic usage example to the header, which illustrates
how it is used. This might be useful, but the way branch and previous
are set already help a lot.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
This applies to the todo branch. Not sure if it is worth it, though.
I played around with the Announce script after I realized that the
announcement emails are not checked in, but generated on the fly.
The reason I played around with the script is the two seemingly same
points
> * Rename detection logic in "diff" family that is used in "merge" has
> learned to guess when all of x/a, x/b and x/c have moved to z/a,
> z/b and z/c, it is likely that x/d added in the meantime would also
> want to move to z/d by taking the hint that the entire directory
> 'x' moved to 'z'. A bug causing dirty files involved in a rename
> to be overwritten during merge has also been fixed as part of this
> work.
The second time it appears, it also contains:
> Incidentally, this also avoids updating a file in the
> working tree after a (non-trivial) merge whose result matches what
> our side originally had.
which made me wonder how this message comes to life.
Thanks,
Stefan
Announce | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Announce b/Announce
index 91d0ba44cca..7c573e2fc40 100755
--- a/Announce
+++ b/Announce
@@ -1,11 +1,16 @@
#!/bin/sh
# Announcement message skelton
+# usage: Meta/Announce <version to announce> <diff-against>
+# e.g. Meta/Announce v2.18.0-rc0 v2.17.0
#
+
tmpbase=/var/tmp/git-announce.$$
trap 'rm -f $tmpbase.*' 0
branch=${1?branch}
previous=${2?previous}
commit=${3-"$1"}
+GIT_PAGER=
+export GIT_PAGER
relname=$(git describe "$commit") &&
vername=$(expr "$relname" : 'v\(.*\)') || exit $?
--
2.17.0.582.gccdcbd54c44.dirty
