Hello, I'm writing a build automation script (with PowerShell) for my project and one of its tasks is to write all commit messages since the last publishing into a text file so that I can edit the messages into a simplified form for the user. (That's a kind of change log file for the user that only goes down to the level of releases, not every single commit.)
This is already implemented for Subversion using the SVN command line client. That program has a nice option to output the requested log entries in XML format which is reasonably easy to parse with PowerShell. Unfortunately, Git doesn't have this option. In fact it doesn't even support any machine-readable output format for log entries. I'd like to suggest adding the XML output format to the git log command so that this information can be parsed without any uncertainties caused by the actual commit message content. I don't care much about the exact XML schema. The SVN schema may serve as a starting point, but Git probably needs other elements for its data. Unfortunately I haven't found a bug tracker or other web forum for this kind of conversation. Mailing lists are a pain to set up on my side and not accessible from the web. This forum seems to be the only accessible way to get in contact with the Git developers. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
