Re: RFS: git2cl

[Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob@member.fsf.org>]

Hi Antonio,

Sorry for delay.

Please help me to understand the issue a bit better:

The number of spaces between Name and Email - is it significant?
As far as I can see GNU documents do not say if there should be one or two 
spaces. (However in their example I see two spaces)
Is this important for you?

To summarize your experience:

git2cl:

        * put one space between Name and Email 
          ('git log --pretty' command put two spaces)

        * show list of changed files
          ('git log pretty' don't)

Regards,
Dmitry.

On Saturday 26 November 2011 20:37:35 Antonio Ospite wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 16:30:31 +1100
> 
> Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob@member.fsf.org> wrote:
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> > Dear Mentors,
> > 
> > I'm looking for sponsor for my package git2cl
> > 
> > Package name	: git2cl
> > URL             : http://josefsson.org/git2cl/
> > License         : GPL-2+
> > Section         : utils
> > 
> > It is a simple tool to convert git logs to GNU ChangeLog format
> > according to format specification:
> > http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Change-Logs.html
> 
> Just a comment about the problem git2cl solves, sorry for going a bit
> Off Topic, in my projects I use this command to generate a GNU Style
> ChangeLog:
> 
>  git log --pretty="format:%ad  %aN  <%aE>%n%n%x09* %s%d%n" --date=short
> 
> or a variant which prints the timezone too in the date field:
> 
>  git log --pretty="format:%ai  %aN  <%aE>%n%n%x09* %s%d%n"
> 
> Notable differences with git2cl:
>   * Puts _two_spaces_ between author's name and author's email, like
>     the document you quote shows. git2cl does not do that.
>   * Does not show the list of changed files, which is not a problem
>     _for_me_ since I usually put a context hint before the commit
>     message anyways, like:
>         subsystem: actual commit message...
> 
> Regards,
>    Antonio
> 
> > Package available for review from:
> > 
> > 
> > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/git2cl/git2cl_2.0+git2008082
> > 71242-1.dsc
> > 
> > Packaging is rather trivial so it likely to be easy to review.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Dmitry.