Re: Patch to git_changelog for release note creation

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Patch to git_changelog for release note creation
Date: 2011-03-15 13:59:18
Message-ID: 21615.1300197558@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> I would like to apply the attached patch to git_changelog for use in
> creating the major release notes. I specifically added these flags:

> --author-after Show author after the commit
> --master-only Show commits made exclusively to the master branch
> --reverse-order Show commits in reverse date order

Your implementation of --master-only seems really grotty. Can't you
just add "origin/master" to the basic git log command?

As for --reverse-order, what's that got to do with preparing release
notes? The end product shouldn't be particularly sensitive to the order
of commit of features ...

regards, tom lane

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