Re: 9.5 release notes

On 2015-06-29 17:30:57 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> > Haven't yet thought much about the format, maybe in the style of
> > git log --pretty='format:[%h] %aN [%ci]: %s' upstream/master
> > I'd personally like to see the hash and the time, the rest isn't
> > particularly important to me.
>
> [ ... plays with that ... ] Hm. To keep down the bulk of the release
> notes, I'd kind of like to fit this info into single SGML comment
> lines, ie

> and if that's to fit into 80 columns without wrapping, the "info" is
> pretty constrained. I get something like this when running git log
> in a 70-column window:

> [f78329d] Tom Lane [2015-06-29 15:42:18 -0400]: Stamp 9.5alpha1.

I agree this is a bit long, but I don't particularly care about 70/80
cols.

How about:
git log --pretty='format:%cd [%h] %cN: %s' --date=short upstream/master
2015-06-29 [f78329d] Tom Lane: Stamp 9.5alpha1.
2015-06-29 [85c25fd] Tom Lane: Desultory review of 9.5 release notes.
2015-06-29 [cbc8d65] Tom Lane: Code + docs review for escaping of option values (commit 11a020eb6).
2015-06-29 [07cb8b0] Andres Freund: Replace ia64 S_UNLOCK compiler barrier with a full memory barrier.
2015-06-28 [c5e5d44] Peter Eisentraut: Translation updates
2015-06-28 [2bdc51a] Tom Lane: Run the C portions of guc-file.l through pgindent.
2015-06-28 [62d16c7] Tom Lane: Improve design and implementation of pg_file_settings view.

Greetings,

Andres Freund