Re: 9.5 release notes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> Haven't yet thought much about the format, maybe in the style of
> git log --pretty='format:[%h] %aN [%ci]: %s' upstream/master
> I'd personally like to see the hash and the time, the rest isn't
> particularly important to me.

[ ... plays with that ... ]  Hm.  To keep down the bulk of the release
notes, I'd kind of like to fit this info into single SGML comment
lines, ie

<!-- info here -->

and if that's to fit into 80 columns without wrapping, the "info" is
pretty constrained.  I get something like this when running git log
in a 70-column window:

[f78329d] Tom Lane [2015-06-29 15:42:18 -0400]: Stamp 9.5alpha1.
[85c25fd] Tom Lane [2015-06-29 15:38:46 -0400]: Desultory review of 9.
[cbc8d65] Tom Lane [2015-06-29 12:42:52 -0400]: Code + docs review for
[07cb8b0] Andres Freund [2015-06-29 14:53:32 +0200]: Replace ia64 S_UN
[c5e5d44] Peter Eisentraut [2015-06-28 23:56:55 -0400]: Translation up
[2bdc51a] Tom Lane [2015-06-28 20:49:35 -0400]: Run the C portions of 
[62d16c7] Tom Lane [2015-06-28 18:06:14 -0400]: Improve design and imp
[d661532] Heikki Linnakangas [2015-06-29 00:09:10 +0300]: Also trigger
[6ab4d38] Heikki Linnakangas [2015-06-29 00:01:26 +0300]: Fix markup i
[a32c3ec] Heikki Linnakangas [2015-06-28 22:30:39 +0300]: Promote the 
[a45c70a] Heikki Linnakangas [2015-06-28 22:16:21 +0300]: Fix double-X
[b36805f] Heikki Linnakangas [2015-06-28 21:35:51 +0300]: Don't choke 
[cb2acb1] Heikki Linnakangas [2015-06-28 21:35:46 +0300]: Add missing_
[cca8ba9] Kevin Grittner [2015-06-28 12:43:59 -0500]: Fix comment for 
[527e6d3] Tatsuo Ishii [2015-06-28 18:54:27 +0900]: Fix function decla
[0a52d37] Tom Lane [2015-06-27 17:47:39 -0400]: Avoid passing NULL to 
[d47a113] Andres Freund [2015-06-27 19:00:45 +0200]: Fix test_decoding
[604e993] Kevin Grittner [2015-06-27 09:55:06 -0500]: Add opaque decla
[7845db2] Heikki Linnakangas [2015-06-27 10:17:42 +0300]: Fix typo in 
[66fbcb0] Simon Riggs [2015-06-27 00:41:47 +0100]: Avoid hot standby c
[7d60b2a] Alvaro Herrera [2015-06-26 18:17:54 -0300]: Fix DDL command 
[4028222] Alvaro Herrera [2015-06-26 18:13:05 -0300]: Fix BRIN xlog re
[7c02d48] Robert Haas [2015-06-26 16:04:46 -0400]: Fix grammar.
[8f15f74] Robert Haas [2015-06-26 15:53:13 -0400]: Be more conservativ
[c66bc72] Robert Haas [2015-06-26 14:49:37 -0400]: release notes: Add 
[8a8c581] Robert Haas [2015-06-26 14:46:48 -0400]: Remove unnecessary 
[31c018e] Robert Haas [2015-06-26 14:20:29 -0400]: release notes: Comb
[9043ef3] Robert Haas [2015-06-26 11:37:32 -0400]: Don't warn about cr

That might be all right but it seems like the timestamp is taking up
an undue amount of space.  If we could get git log to put out only
the date, it would be better IMO, but I don't see a format option
that does that :-(.

I wonder if it's worth teaching git_changelog to have an option
to put out summary lines in the specific format we select.
        regards, tom lane