Hi Simon, > Good idea, and, yes!
OK, with your and Jim's consent, I've requested the creation of the project on Savannah. Name: 'git-changelog'. We should ask for it to become a GNU project later. > I would have offered git2cl as a GNU project > already unless it contained code from cvs2cl. The code is easy to > isolate though. Yes, that would be good, to be claim copyright on 100% of the code. For the initial code review of Savannah I've only included Jim's and my code for now. > git2cl and gitlog-to-changelog are written in Perl, and that would be > fine with me for a new tool. Your git-merge-changelog driver is written > in C, but that feels like a poor language for something that is mostly > text reformatting? git-merge-changelog needs to be fast. When you have to rebase a series of 30 patches, each step should take 1 second at most. You can spend 0.5 seconds on the ChangeLog file. So, the input are 3 files of ca. 2 MB size, and you need it processed intelligently in 0.5 seconds. I don't think Perl gives you this speed. (Jim's gitlog-to-changelog program needs ca. 0.8 seconds to reformat the 1.5 MB of "git log" output. With 6 MB of input and more intelligent processing, I guess you cannot get away with less than 5 seconds.) Besides that, I won't write or maintain any Perl code. Bruno
