changeset 37485:2ddad27fc05c

gitlog-to-changelog: add --until * build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog: Support new --until option. Need described by Eli Zaretskii in: http://bugs.gnu.org/19113
author Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
date Thu, 20 Nov 2014 09:29:35 -0800
parents 9e098fb2db1e
children 6323478ede24
files ChangeLog build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog
diffstat 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/ChangeLog	Sun Nov 16 10:41:11 2014 -0800
+++ b/ChangeLog	Thu Nov 20 09:29:35 2014 -0800
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2014-11-20  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+	gitlog-to-changelog: add --until
+	* build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog: Support new --until option.
+	Need described by Eli Zaretskii in: http://bugs.gnu.org/19113
+
 2014-11-14  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
 	extern-inline: update commentary about GCC bugs
--- a/build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog	Sun Nov 16 10:41:11 2014 -0800
+++ b/build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog	Thu Nov 20 09:29:35 2014 -0800
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
     if 0;
 # Convert git log output to ChangeLog format.
 
-my $VERSION = '2012-07-29 06:11'; # UTC
+my $VERSION = '2014-11-20 17:25'; # 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
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@
                   directory can be derived.
    --since=DATE convert only the logs since DATE;
                   the default is to convert all log entries.
+   --until=DATE convert only the logs older than DATE.
    --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'
@@ -220,6 +221,7 @@
 
 {
   my $since_date;
+  my $until_date;
   my $format_string = '%s%n%b%n';
   my $amend_file;
   my $append_dot = 0;
@@ -232,6 +234,7 @@
      help => sub { usage 0 },
      version => sub { print "$ME version $VERSION\n"; exit },
      'since=s' => \$since_date,
+     'until=s' => \$until_date,
      'format=s' => \$format_string,
      'amend=s' => \$amend_file,
      'append-dot' => \$append_dot,
@@ -243,6 +246,8 @@
 
   defined $since_date
     and unshift @ARGV, "--since=$since_date";
+  defined $until_date
+    and unshift @ARGV, "--until=$until_date";
 
   # This is a hash that maps an SHA1 to perl code (i.e., s/old/new/)
   # that makes a correction in the log or attribution of that commit.