- Commit messages should not contain the "Signed-off-by:" lines that
are used in some other projects.
+- Any lines of the the commit message that start with "; " are omitted
+ from the generated ChangeLog.
+
- Explaining the rationale for a design choice is best done in comments
in the source code. However, sometimes it is useful to describe just
the rationale for a change; that can be done in the commit message
if 0;
# Convert git log output to ChangeLog format.
-my $VERSION = '2015-05-08 06:05'; # UTC
+my $VERSION = '2015-05-19 01:37'; # 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
the default is to convert all log entries.
--until=DATE convert only the logs older than DATE.
--ignore-matching=PAT ignore commit messages whose first lines match PAT.
+ --ignore-line=PAT ignore lines of commit messages that match PAT.
--format=FMT set format string for commit subject and body;
see 'man git-log' for the list of format metacharacters;
the default is '%s%n%b%n'
my $append_dot = 0;
my $cluster = 1;
my $ignore_matching;
+ my $ignore_line;
my $strip_tab = 0;
my $strip_cherry_pick = 0;
my $srcdir;
'append-dot' => \$append_dot,
'cluster!' => \$cluster,
'ignore-matching=s' => \$ignore_matching,
+ 'ignore-line=s' => \$ignore_line,
'strip-tab' => \$strip_tab,
'strip-cherry-pick' => \$strip_cherry_pick,
'srcdir=s' => \$srcdir,
if (! (defined $ignore_matching
&& @line && $line[0] =~ /$ignore_matching/))
{
+ if (defined $ignore_line && @line)
+ {
+ @line = grep ! /$ignore_line/, @line;
+ while ($line[$#line] =~ /^\s*$/) { pop @line; }
+ }
+
# Record whether there are two or more paragraphs.
my $multi_paragraph = grep /^\s*$/, @line;