nagios-plugins/tools/generate-change-log

#!/usr/bin/env perl
#
# Copyright (c) 2013 Nagios Plugins Development Team
#
# Originally written by Holger Weiss <holger@zedat.fu-berlin.de>.
#
# This file is free software; the Nagios Plugins Development Team gives
# unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, with or without
# modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
# ANY WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law; without even the implied
# warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
#

use warnings;
use strict;
use Text::Wrap;

# The lines will have a length of no more than $columns - 1.
$Text::Wrap::columns = 81;

if (system('git rev-parse --git-dir >/dev/null 2>&1') != 0) {
	print "Not a Git repository, so I won't update the ChangeLog.\n";
	exit 0;
}

my $regex =
    '^commit [0-9a-f]+\n' .
    '^Author: (?<name>.+) <(?<email>.*)>\n' .
    '^Date:   (?<date>\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})\n' .
    '^\n' .
    '(?<message>(^    .*\n)+)' .
    '^\n' .
    '(?<files>(^.+\n)+)';

my $git_log = qx'git log -M -C --stat --name-only --date=short';
die "Cannot get `git log' output\n" if $? != 0;

my ($prev_date, $prev_name, $prev_email);

while ($git_log =~ /$regex/gm) {
	my %commit = %+;

	if (not defined $prev_date
	    or $commit{date} ne $prev_date
	    or $commit{name} ne $prev_name
	    or $commit{email} ne $prev_email) {
		print "$commit{date}  $commit{name}  <$commit{email}>\n\n";
	}
	$prev_date = $commit{date};
	$prev_name = $commit{name};
	$prev_email = $commit{email};

	my @files = split(/\n/, $commit{files});
	my @message = map { s/^ {4}//; $_ } split(/\n/, $commit{message});
	my $first_line = shift(@message);
	   $first_line =~ s/^$files[-1]: //;
	my $intro = sprintf('* %s: %s', join(', ', @files), $first_line);

	print fill("\t", "\t", $intro), "\n";
	foreach my $line (@message) {
		print "\t$line" if length($line) > 0;
		print "\n";
	}
	print "\n";
}