Re: New spin of repository conversion

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

On 10/18/2017 04:41 PM, Lars Hecking via gnuplot-beta wrote:
> 
>> I've enclosed a file named EMPTY which is in the right format to be
>> read back in by reposurgeon. All of you, please fill in any comments
>> you can in the commits you're responsible for; if you want to clue me
>> in to a ChangeLog commit that should be squashed with the previous
>> one, put SQUASH in the comment field.  Don't alter the divider lines.
>   
>   The ones attributed to me: not a chance. If they're not in the ChangeLog
>   files, and they aren't, I certainly can't remember. Some of this is nearly
>   20 years ago.

But one can see the color-coded diff hunks very conveniently in a viewer 
like gitg (or gitk).  Change to the directory where the git repository 
is and type "gitg" (or "gitk") and in the search window type "empty log 
message".  Use up-arrow or down-arrow to navigate.

Most of these "empty log message" entries are short, of the variety:

~~~
sebald@ ~/gnuplot/test_repository/second_sourceforge/git-main $ git diff 
e3399d54bc75eada863922a165e2246b9e52a296 
dd87121fcc81afcf07e84c7d2b02ade6f9b6619f
diff --git a/docs/gnuplot.doc b/docs/gnuplot.doc
index 09a6728..ab3c60b 100644
--- a/docs/gnuplot.doc
+++ b/docs/gnuplot.doc
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-C RCS $Id: gnuplot.doc,v 1.1107 2017/09/05 20:18:58 sfeam Exp $
+C RCS $Id: gnuplot.doc,v 1.1108 2017/09/11 20:13:24 sfeam Exp $
  C
  C Copyright (C) 1986 - 1993, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004   Thomas 
Williams, Colin Kelley et al.
  C
@@ -199,6 +199,11 @@ C
   Version 5.3 is the current development version. New features 
introduced here
   will generally not appear in a supported release until version 5.4. 
Details
   may change before that.
+
+#start
+#bcreation of csv files using `set table separator {tab|comma|"char"}`
+##See `plot with table`.
+#end
  3 Features introduced in version 5.2
  ?Features introduced in version 5.2
  4 New plot styles and style options
@@ -13013,6 +13018,7 @@ Ffigure_multiple_keys
        plot <file> using ("File 1"):1:2:3 with table
        plot <file> using (sprintf("%4.2f",$1)) : (sprintf("%4.2f",$3)) 
with table

+=csv
   To create a csv file use
        set table "tab.csv" separator comma
        plot <foo> using 1:2:3:4 with table
~~~

For which almost anyone could write a short description to replace "*** 
empty log message ***".  My thought was that we do

git log --format='<%cE!%cIZ> %s' | grep " empty log message " > 
message_map.txt

and then pass the message_map.txt file along to a half dozen people who 
each fill in forty or fifty entries.  The GUI makes it easy, whereas I 
wouldn't want to peruse the diffs from the command line; too time consuming.

Dan