From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?P=C3=A1draig?= Brady Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#19113: Generate a ChangeLog file from commit logs Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:25:05 +0000 Message-ID: <546E23F1.9040003@draigBrady.com> References: <546D2E75.6090701@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416504396 1949 80.91.229.3 (20 Nov 2014 17:26:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:26:36 +0000 (UTC) To: 19113@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 20 18:26:27 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XrVUt-0007aP-CM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 18:26:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36597 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrVUs-0005a3-Qs for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 12:26:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38294) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrVUg-0005Js-Rj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 12:26:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrVUZ-0000Zk-8p for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 12:26:10 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:42553) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrVUY-0000ZL-Lf for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 12:26:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XrVUY-000472-3W for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 12:26:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: =?UTF-8?Q?P=C3=A1draig?= Brady Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:26:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 19113 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 19113-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B19113.141650430915749 (code B ref 19113); Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:26:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 19113) by debbugs.gnu.org; 20 Nov 2014 17:25:09 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39766 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XrVTg-00045x-U4 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 12:25:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mail2.vodafone.ie ([213.233.128.44]:61486) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XrVTe-00045o-C4 for 19113@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 12:25:07 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AlcFAEEjblRtTcI3/2dsb2JhbABagw6CUYETUNAeAoEHFgEBAQEBfYQJIw8Bbg0CBRYLAgsDAgECAUUTCAEBiEEBrnSPS4YLkRSBLY9iFoJhgVQFpwuOUYN7PYJ7AQEB Original-Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.localdomain) ([109.77.194.55]) by mail2.vodafone.ie with ESMTP; 20 Nov 2014 17:25:05 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 In-Reply-To: 837fyp7tvi.fsf@gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:96332 gitlog-to-changelog takes the same options as `git log` so it should be easy enough to generate logs for the last n versions, or the last x versions in the last N years etc. and discard anything older (which can/should be looked up in git if required). I'm considering removing any of these old logs from coreutils that are already in git logs: $ find -name "ChangeLog*" | xargs du -hsc | sort -h 8.0K ./build-aux/ChangeLog-2007 8.0K ./po/ChangeLog-2007 16K ./ChangeLog-2008 64K ./old/sh-utils/ChangeLog.0 72K ./doc/ChangeLog-2007 152K ./ChangeLog-2006 156K ./ChangeLog-2007 164K ./old/sh-utils/ChangeLog 172K ./m4/ChangeLog-2007 220K ./old/fileutils/ChangeLog-1997 288K ./old/fileutils/ChangeLog 304K ./old/textutils/ChangeLog 312K ./lib/ChangeLog-2007 440K ./ChangeLog-2005 1.1M ./ChangeLog 3.4M total Pádraig.