Re: Script to generate ChangeLogs automatically

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On 21/11/18 7:36 PM, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
> I get this error;
>
> dc4f75757320d8d82cd4f4be29b156ca1e790479: Unknown line format T
>
> when processing the commit:
>
> address@hidden:~/gnu/hacks/poke$ git show --date=short --raw 
> dc4f75757320d8d82cd4f4be29b156ca1e790479
> commit dc4f75757320d8d82cd4f4be29b156ca1e790479
> Author: Jose E. Marchesi <address@hidden>
> Date:   2018-03-29
>
>      foo
>
> :100644 120000 2099840... ae58b2c... T  INSTALL
> :100644 100644 dcedb1c... 622d875... M  testsuite/lib/poke.exp
> :100644 100644 0c8eebc... 06f7b37... M  testsuite/poke.pkl/pkl.exp

Ah, I never encountered the T type.  I found the documentation for this 
now[1], so I'll fix this up.  Thanks!

> Also, I get many errors like the following, instead of getting entries
> for modified source entities.
>
> 2018-04-03  Jose E. Marchesi  <address@hidden>
>
>         COMMIT: 67eead8489c377ac6c05cca599a294de5083df27
>         * src/pkl-typify.c: Modified.
> error: object 540a6069c1b72343feeb55f457cd5ccbd7687825 is a blob, not a commit
> fatal: Invalid symmetric difference expression 540a606...
> error: object db51deabaac3785581769b3398a19a2686247c36 is a blob, not a commit
> fatal: Invalid symmetric difference expression db51dea...

I've got git 2.19.  It could be that an old git can show refs but not 
blobs because that's where this seems to be failing.  I could try to 
find an old enough box to try and replicate this.

I'm not sure if it makes sense to iterate versions of the script on this 
list, but I'll be happy to share updated versions if y'all like.

Siddhesh