Wolfgang,
I was wondering if either of these two commands comes close to being a "replacement" for automatically generating the CHANGELOG in a format that is close to what you would like:
git log --pretty=shortlog LABEL_2006_06_30_2020..HEAD | git shortlog or git log LABEL_2006_06_30_2020..HEAD | egrep -v '^Merge|^commit'
Here, I picked LABEL_2006_06_30_2020 as an arbitrary example of how you select the starting point of a range to delimit the set of changes you are interested in capturing.
If either of these is close, it might be a pretty simple mod to, say, the "git shortlog" script to make it more acceptable.
Here are some shortened example outputs from the first and second commands, respectively. The first batches by Author, and the second follows a topologically correct commit history flow.
Thanks, jdl
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$ git log --pretty=shortlog LABEL_2006_06_30_2020..HEAD | git shortlog
Andy Fleming: Added code to support 2.6.18 PCI changes in u-boot Add support for eTSEC 3 & 4 on 8548 CDS Updated config headers to add default FDT-based booting
Bartlomiej Sieka: Fix problems with SanDisk Corporation Cruzer Micro USB memory stick. Add rudimentary handling of alternate settings of USB interfaces - to fix Prevent USB commands from working when USB is stopped. Add a fix for a buggy USB device on the FO300 board.
Detlev Zundel: Added interrupt handling capabilities for mpc5xxx processors. Added simple_strtoul(), getenv() and setenv() to the exported functions. Added another example showing simple interrupt interception. Added changelog entry for previous small commits and extended README on Added David Updegraff as maintainer of CRAYL1
Grant Likely: Fix possible uninitialized variable compiler warning.
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$ git log LABEL_2006_06_30_2020..HEAD | egrep -v '^Merge|^commit'
Author: Jon Loeliger jdl@freescale.com Date: Thu Oct 12 11:29:33 2006 -0500
Merge branch 'master' of http://www.denx.de/git/u-boot
Author: Jon Loeliger jdl@freescale.com Date: Thu Oct 12 10:42:36 2006 -0500
Remove unneeded include files and local variable.
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger jdl@freescale.com
Author: Grant Likely grant.likely@secretlab.ca Date: Tue Oct 10 00:23:32 2006 -0600
Fix possible uninitialized variable compiler warning.
When CONFIG_OF_FLAG_TREE is set, the compiler complains that 'len' in do_bootm_linux() may be uninitialized. There is no possibility in the current code that len will get used uninitialized, but this fix follows the existing convention of setting both len and data to zero at the same time.
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely grant.likely@secretlab.ca
Author: Wolfgang Denk wd@pollux.denx.de Date: Thu Oct 12 11:43:47 2006 +0200
Fix spelling; minor code cleanup.