# git2cl

This is a quick'n'dirty tool to convert git logs to GNU ChangeLog format.

The tool invokes git log internally unless you pipe a log to it. Thus, typically you would use it as follows:

    jas@mocca:~/src/libtasn1$ git2cl > ChangeLog
    jas@mocca:~/src/libtasn1$

If you don't want git2cl to invoke git log internally, you can use it as a pipe. It needs a git log generated with —pretty —numstat and —summary. You can use it as follows:

    jas@mocca:~/src/libtasn1$ git log --pretty --numstat --summary | ~/src/git2cl/git2cl > ChangeLog
    jas@mocca:~/src/libtasn1$

The output format is specified by:

http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Change-Logs.html

My inspiration for writing this tool was the cvs2cl tool, which I have been using in several projects. Replacing it was necessary to seriously consider switching from CVS to GIT for my projects.

The canonical home page for git2cl is: http://josefsson.org/git2cl/ and its repository can be found at http://repo.or.cz/w/git2cl.git.

## Credits

Luis Mondesi contributed several improvements.

## Support

Try talking to Simon Josefsson.