Re: [PATCH] gitlog-to-changelog: provide a ChangeLog-repair mechanism

[Jim Meyering]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> I've been thinking about this for years, ever since the unpleasantness
> of that first git commit that I mistakenly attributed to myself.
>
> With this new --amend=FILE option, you'll be able to maintain
> a list of <SHA,CODE+> pairs where SHA is a 40-byte SHA1
> (alone on a line) referring to a commit in the current project, and
> CODE refers to one or more consecutive lines of Perl code.
> Pairs must be separated by one or more blank lines.
> Using that file, invoke gitlog-to-changelog with this new option,
> and it'll do the rest.
>
> Here's the one I expect to use for coreutils:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> # This file is expected to be used via gitlog-to-changelog's --amend=FILE
> # option.  It specifies what changes to make to each given SHA1's commit
> # log and metadata, using Perl-eval'able expressions.
>
> 3a169f4c5d9159283548178668d2fae6fced3030
> # fix title:
> s/all tile types/all file types/
>
> e181802521d4e19e367dbe8cfa877296bb5dafb2
> # fix the title!
> s,seq:,factor:,
>
> 3ece0355d52e41a1b079c0c46477a32250278c11
> # correct the URL
> s,<[^>]+>,<http://bugs.debian.org/412688>,

Oops.
I corrected that at the last minute and
forgot to update.  It should be:

  s,<http.+?>,<http://bugs.debian.org/412688>,

Otherwise, it'll mistakenly change my <email address>
on the first line to that URL.