We use git log for creating RELEASE NOTES
For example:
git log --pretty feature-kibana..HEAD
commit 7bc8622d5fa46f7cbfb001b45c04fcdb4d55ed0c (HEAD -> qb-1.43, tag: 43.4.7, origin/qb-1.43) Author: Greg Rundlett <greg.rundlett@gmail.com> Date: Fri Jan 24 02:18:59 2025 +0000 Finish off Maintenance Script improvements Last commits for this round of maintenance script operations Fixes Issue #142 commit 7cb9091831caf8a3f72d9c8de44310f5c9e1ad9e (tag: 43.7.1) Author: Greg Rundlett <greg.rundlett@gmail.com> Date: Fri Jan 24 02:12:42 2025 +0000 Add comments for $smwgParserFeatures (Links In Values feature) commit ab10ebe10fa294f4a8ce456269107281f2e2de18 Author: Greg Rundlett <greg.rundlett@gmail.com> Date: Fri Jan 17 19:08:51 2025 +0000 Maintenance Script update (missed these) Convert script calls to go through executable 'maintenance/run' For extensions, use the class naming pattern 'Extension:ClassName' Fixes Issue #142 commit ca1791040ebf7ea5e7ff4cef04f6c3ef2d56f2d2 (tag: 43.4.6) Author: Greg Rundlett <greg.rundlett@gmail.com> Date: Fri Jan 17 19:01:19 2025 +0000 Finish Maintenance Script update Convert script calls to go through executable 'maintenance/run' For extensions, use the class naming pattern 'Extension:ClassName' Fixes Issue #142 commit d624f7b4fbed42033dd8b6da3e786f9c1de53340 (tag: 43.6.1) Author: Greg Rundlett <greg.rundlett@gmail.com> Date: Thu Jan 16 23:48:54 2025 +0000 A new tool to inspect the git repos on the controller commit e267f14854957206ba556812038c357e27db0116 (tag: 43.4.5) Author: Greg Rundlett <greg.rundlett@gmail.com> Date: Thu Jan 16 23:48:12 2025 +0000 Update the Update.php role for new Maintenance script ops Issue #142 commit 9e4de5e18ad148ff47660c6c22b5dbf6ace5c940 (tag: 43.4.4) Author: Greg Rundlett <greg.rundlett@gmail.com> Date: Thu Jan 16 23:46:57 2025 +0000 Update maintenance scripts Server Performance logging/reporting role (Probably needs to be eliminated altogether) Issue #142 commit 278c394ee70a00d86abcf13f434f6677723436b6 (tag: 43.4.3) Author: Greg Rundlett <greg.rundlett@gmail.com> Date: Thu Jan 16 23:45:38 2025 +0000 Update maintenance scripts showSiteStats and refreshLinks Issue #142 commit 57c9bb20231e76fed948d22ea93714cff24d53c6 (tag: 43.4.2) Author: Greg Rundlett <greg.rundlett@gmail.com> Date: Thu Jan 16 23:44:01 2025 +0000 Disable metastore maintenance All maintenance needs to be refactored Issue #142 Also, this may be affected by upgrading to SMW 5.x Issue #136 commit 7ad66760bc98bfdf95f7774ad920c669510ca784 (tag: 43.5.1) Author: Greg Rundlett <greg.rundlett@gmail.com> Date: Thu Jan 16 23:42:08 2025 +0000 Prefer source in composer managed extensions Use the --prefer-source option to composer Eliminate the duplicate composer run Eliminate the removal of a non-existant SMW file (IdeAliases.php) needed for Issue #136 commit f87b92b261035b4e8f91a169ecf9b286303de61c (tag: 43.4.1) Author: Greg Rundlett <greg.rundlett@gmail.com> Date: Thu Jan 16 23:32:29 2025 +0000 Update maintenance scripts for MediaWiki 1.40 Fixes Issue #142 commit 4ca775d65b3f64907dd87990af28073d454702fa (tag: 43.3.1) Author: Greg Rundlett <greg.rundlett@gmail.com> Date: Thu Jan 16 22:56:48 2025 +0000 Update MezaCoreExtensions.yml for REL1_43 Use full enableSemantics() call to fix URL pattern Switch to gerrit because GitHub seems to throttle SemanticDrilldown 3.05 -> dev-master SemanticScribunto 2.2.0 -> dev-master add quotes on SemanticDrilldown version spec add quotes on SubPageList version spec commit e2873948a30a02fb56a8be6d40181f76101fad1c (tag: 43.2.1) Author: Greg Rundlett <greg.rundlett@gmail.com> Date: Fri Jan 10 17:45:00 2025 +0000 Create a variable named php_memory_limit defaulting to 128M PHP normally defaults to 128M so we also default to that. Templated in the php.ini template of the apache-php role. Fixes issue #151 commit 51c89233b3279fbdd76c371cbdd5f9b17552d614 (tag: 43.1.2) Author: Greg Rundlett <greg.rundlett@gmail.com> Date: Wed Jan 8 01:39:19 2025 +0000 Enable SemanticCompoundQueries Was 2.2.0 Now 3.x-dev (same as dev-master) Issue #140 commit d2a87e79e3f039f7c81cc2ca091959698a11d99c (tag: 43.1.1) Author: Greg Rundlett <greg.rundlett@gmail.com> Date: Wed Jan 8 00:43:17 2025 +0000 Use SubPageList dev-master Fixes issue #138 commit ca17aac64a4c1cd83be7ea4f22ac6b2732bdce06 (tag: 43.0.3) Author: Greg Rundlett <greg.rundlett@gmail.com> Date: Tue Jan 7 21:38:15 2025 +0000 Disable or update non-working skins These skins need a version adjustment or update to work with REL1_43 - Tweeki - Medik Use tags/v4.39.1 for Tweeki Issue #136 commit cde7d8cfaa866bbcba6de5b32b34f1d94b1134e6 (tag: 43.0.2) Author: Greg Rundlett <greg.rundlett@gmail.com> Date: Tue Jan 7 21:09:29 2025 +0000 Disable non-working extensions These extensions do not work, or need a version adjustment, to be compatible with REL1_43 and SMW 5.x - SemanticCompoundQueries - SemanticDependencyUpdater - SemanticDrilldown - SemanticExtraSpecialProperties - SemanticResultFormats - SemanticScribunto - SubPageList commit 36567d8330bef1a28d923fd0f351f7ef6e26bdd8 (tag: 43.0.1) Author: Greg Rundlett <greg.rundlett@gmail.com> Date: Tue Jan 7 21:04:38 2025 +0000 Switch SMW to dev-master Addresses Issue #137 composer show -a mediawiki/semantic-media-wiki shows all available composer versions commit d7d6a88ecebedf8eb2a2d476d26d937696ba2809 (tag: 43.0.0) Author: Greg Rundlett <greg.rundlett@gmail.com> Date: Tue Jan 7 17:33:33 2025 +0000 Upgrade to REL1_43 Fixes Issue #136 set meza_repository_url to use freephile/meza set mediawiki_version for core set mediawiki_default_branch (for extensions) set php_ius_version to php81
Pretty[edit]
'pretty' is shorthand for various formats that are predefined.
- git log --pretty=oneline
- git log --pretty=short
- git log --pretty=medium
- git log --pretty=full
- git log --pretty=fuller
- git log --pretty=reference
- git log --pretty=email
- git log --pretty=raw
- git log --pretty=format:<string> and git log --pretty=tformat:<string>
When the format name is not recognized (ie. none of the above), and has %placeholder in it, it acts as if --pretty=tformat:<format> were given. This is all to say the --pretty= and --format= are nearly identical ways of saying the same thing.
Commit Formatting[edit]
The format parameter to git log allows you to specify exactly what you want to see in the output.
--pretty=format: is equivalent to --format=
git log -3 --pretty=format:"* %h - %an: %s" 39.5.0...HEAD
gives output like this:
* 43be9737 - Greg Rundlett: Make wiki config directory group executable * 45658c32 - Greg Rundlett: fix quoting in SMW setupStore shell command * 8a5fde26 - Greg Rundlett: Add Admin rights for SMW
Show the date in 'short' format -in other words YYYY-MM-DD - with %as
git log -3 --pretty=format:"* %h (%as) - %an: %s" 39.5.0...HEAD
* 43be9737 (2025-08-17) - Greg Rundlett: Make wiki config directory group executable * 45658c32 (2025-08-17) - Greg Rundlett: fix quoting in SMW setupStore shell command * 8a5fde26 (2025-08-16) - Greg Rundlett: Add Admin rights for SMW
Add in ref names (tags / branches) with %d
git log -3 --pretty=format:"* %h (%as) %d - %an: %s" 39.5.0...HEAD
* 43be9737 (2025-08-17) (HEAD -> main, tag: 43.25.11, origin/main, origin/HEAD) - Greg Rundlett: Make wiki config directory group executable * 45658c32 (2025-08-17) (tag: 43.25.10) - Greg Rundlett: fix quoting in SMW setupStore shell command * 8a5fde26 (2025-08-16) (tag: 43.25.9) - Greg Rundlett: Add Admin rights for SMW
Instead of the default decorations for ref names you get with a simple %d, you can supply your own. Here we prefix tags with v and no space instead of the default 'tag: ' seen above. To use long-hand decoration, you specify %(decorate:) along with four specifications for the prefix, suffix, tag and separator. E.g.
git log -3 --pretty=format:"* %h (%as) %(decorate:prefix=,suffix=,tag=v,separator= ) - %an: %s" 39.5.0...HEAD
* 43be9737 (2025-08-17) HEAD -> main v43.25.11 origin/main origin/HEAD - Greg Rundlett: Make wiki config directory group executable * 45658c32 (2025-08-17) v43.25.10 - Greg Rundlett: fix quoting in SMW setupStore shell command * 8a5fde26 (2025-08-16) v43.25.9 - Greg Rundlett: Add Admin rights for SMW
Just like '%s' shows the subject, %b shows the body of the commit message in the log.
git log -3 --pretty=format:"* %h (%as) %(decorate:prefix=,suffix=,tag=v,separator= ) - %an: %s %b" 39.5.0...HEAD
* 43be9737 (2025-08-17) HEAD -> main v43.25.11 origin/main origin/HEAD - Greg Rundlett: Make wiki config directory group executable Not sure this should be apache owned, but if meza-ansible user is going to have any permission to do anything here then it needs to be group executable * 45658c32 (2025-08-17) v43.25.10 - Greg Rundlett: fix quoting in SMW setupStore shell command * 8a5fde26 (2025-08-16) v43.25.9 - Greg Rundlett: Add Admin rights for SMW Allow access to Special:SemanticMediaWiki for Sysops group.
tformat works just like format with the benefit of adding a terminating newline character after the final output.
git log -3 --pretty=tformat:"* %h (%as) %(decorate:prefix=,suffix=,tag=v,separator= ) - %an: %s %b" 39.5.0...HEAD
same output as above, with a newline after the final item
You also get tformat behavior if you do not specify any 'format' word, but use '%-encoded' formatting strings. Thus, the following is equivalent to the previous example:
git log -3 --pretty="* %h (%as) %(decorate:prefix=,suffix=,tag=v,separator= ) - %an: %s %b" 39.5.0...HEAD