Re: [PATCH] Script to generate ChangeLog-like output from git metadata

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Siddhesh,

Thank you for the submission!

The discussion in gnu-prog-discuss mentions that this script implements
the conclusions on the bug-standards list at
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-standards/2018-05/msg00003.html>
and
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-standards/2018-05/msg00011.html>

> Every project would need to specify its own
> vcstocl_quirks.py for now.

For this reason, I've removed the file vcstocl_quirks.py from the patch;
it has its place in glibc, not in gnulib. Fortunately the code does a
reasonable thing when this file is not present.

I've also changed the commit message to match gnulib style, and
removed a trailing blank line which produced a git warning.


I'm adding the gnulib infrastructure (below). I'm listing you as the
owner of this module; I hope this is fine with you?

Gnulib has documentation in TeXinfo format; if you could write a
documentation section (possibly borrowing from the mentioned mailing
list posts?), that would be extra useful.


2019-11-18  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>

        vcs-to-changelog: New module.
        * modules/vcs-to-changelog: New file.
        * MODULES.html.sh (func_all_modules): Add it.

diff --git a/MODULES.html.sh b/MODULES.html.sh
index be12bf4..107f16c 100755
--- a/MODULES.html.sh
+++ b/MODULES.html.sh
@@ -3577,6 +3577,7 @@ func_all_modules ()
   func_module update-copyright
   func_module useless-if-before-free
   func_module vc-list-files
+  func_module vcs-to-changelog
   func_end_table
 
   element="Misc"
diff --git a/modules/vcs-to-changelog b/modules/vcs-to-changelog
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..81dabab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/vcs-to-changelog
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Description:
+Convert git log to ChangeLog
+
+Files:
+build-aux/vcs_to_changelog.py
+build-aux/vcstocl/frontend_c.py
+build-aux/vcstocl/misc_util.py
+build-aux/vcstocl/vcs_git.py
+
+Depends-on:
+
+configure.ac:
+
+Makefile.am:
+
+Include:
+
+License:
+GPLed build tool
+
+Maintainer:
+Siddhesh Poyarekar