From: Dmitry V. Levin Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:56:52 +0000 (+0400) Subject: gitlog-to-changelog: fix git-log invocation X-Git-Tag: v0.1~1517 X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3aee0dcbd2f2ee665609b1d338940c021db7d484;p=gnulib.git gitlog-to-changelog: fix git-log invocation git-log mishandles date strings before 1970-01-01 UTC, and there is no use to specify --since=1970-01-01 by default anyway. * build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog: By default, when no --since option was given, do not specify explicit --since option to git-log. --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index a692aa96cc..f68a9b0d16 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +2011-10-31 Dmitry V. Levin + + gitlog-to-changelog: fix git-log invocation. + git-log mishandles date strings before 1970-01-01 UTC, and there is + no use to specify --since=1970-01-01 by default anyway. + * build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog: By default, when no --since option + was given, do not specify explicit --since option to git-log. + 2011-10-30 Dmitry V. Levin gitlog-to-changelog: new option --append-dot. diff --git a/build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog b/build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog index c3a5ef396c..c7763138e4 100755 --- a/build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog +++ b/build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ eval '(exit $?0)' && eval 'exec perl -wS "$0" ${1+"$@"}' if 0; # Convert git log output to ChangeLog format. -my $VERSION = '2011-10-31 07:45'; # UTC +my $VERSION = '2011-10-31 16:06'; # UTC # The definition above must lie within the first 8 lines in order # for the Emacs time-stamp write hook (at end) to update it. # If you change this file with Emacs, please let the write hook @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ sub quoted_cmd(@) } { - my $since_date = '1970-01-01 UTC'; + my $since_date; my $format_string = '%s%n%b%n'; my $append_dot = 0; GetOptions @@ -114,7 +114,10 @@ sub quoted_cmd(@) 'append-dot' => \$append_dot, ) or usage 1; - my @cmd = (qw (git log --log-size), "--since=$since_date", + defined $since_date + and unshift @ARGV, "--since=$since_date"; + + my @cmd = (qw (git log --log-size), '--pretty=format:%ct %an <%ae>%n%n'.$format_string, @ARGV); open PIPE, '-|', @cmd or die ("$ME: failed to run `". quoted_cmd (@cmd) ."': $!\n"