That's how you get the name of last tag applied to current branch in Git repo:
git describe | grep -Eo '^[^-]+'
We need to meddle with grep
because git describe
gives us additional info in the form of
LAST_TAG-COMMITS_SINCE_LAST_TAG-gLAST_COMMIT_HASH
Note the funny literal 'g' before the LAST_COMMIT_HASH
.
And that's how you get the list of changes since some COMMIT
till the current state of the working copy, in really pretty format "ISO Date (Author) Commit text"
:
git log --no-merges --pretty=format:'%ai: (%an) %s' COMMIT..HEAD
HEAD
is literal "HEAD" there. You can substitute COMMIT
token with either commit hash or tag.
Now you write the following script and place it in the root of the codebase of your project:
#!/bin/sh
# Get the list of changes made since the last tag
LAST_TAG=`git describe | grep -Eo '^[^-]+'`
git log --no-merges --pretty=format:'%ai: (%an) %s' $LAST_TAG..HEAD
Name it as changelog
and then you can do just:
./changelog
And get something like this:
2012-09-14 23:50:43 +0400: (E. T.) Some stuff for ticket 1584. re #1584 2012-09-14 23:45:05 +0400: (A. Y.) Some stuff for ticket 1584. test #1584 2012-09-14 15:44:49 -0400: (A. Y.) Refactored some old stuff 2012-09-14 22:24:04 +0300: (D. M.) Improved tests
And this will be changes only since last tag applied. Excellent for quick reports about current upstream.