Re: Changelogs on kernel.org

[Marcus Alanen]

In mailing-lists.linux-kernel, you wrote:
>[e-mail] (Linus Torvalds) writes:
>
>> Perl is the obvious choice for doing transformations like these.  Is
>> anybody willing to write a perl script that does the "sort by author"
>> thing?

[snip]
Basically the same, this treats each patch separately:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

my %people = ();
my $addr = "";
my @cur = ();

sub append_item() {
	if (!$addr) { return; }
	if (!$people{$addr}) { @{$people{$addr}} = (); }
	push @{$people{$addr}}, [@cur];

	@cur = ();
}

while (<>) {
	# Match address
	if (/^<(.+)>/) {
		# Add old item (if any) before beginning new
		append_item();
		$addr = $1;
	} elsif ($addr) {
		# Add line to patch
		push @cur, $_;
	} else {
		# Header information
		print
	}
}

sub print_items($) {
	my @items = @{$people{$_[0]}};
	# Vain attempt to sort patches from one address
	@items = sort @items;
	while ($_ = shift @items) {
		# Item separator
		print "        --------------------------------------------------------------\n";
		print @$_;
	}
}

append_item();
foreach $addr (sort keys %people) {
	print "<$addr>\n";
	print_items($addr);
	print "\n";
}

Output:

Summary of changes from v2.5.14 to v2.5.15
============================================

<[e-mail]>
        --------------------------------------------------------------
        - remove spurious spaces and tabs at end of lines
        - make sure if, while, for, switch has a space before the opening '('
        - make sure no line has more than 80 chars
        - move initializations to the declaration line where possible
        - bitwise, logical and arithmetic operators have spaces before and after,
          improving readability of complex expressions
        - remove uneeded () in returns
        - other minor cleanups

<[e-mail]>
        --------------------------------------------------------------
        net/ipv4/arp.c:
        - htons cleanups
        - remove duplicated code
        - apply CodingStyle

...
...
<[e-mail]>
        --------------------------------------------------------------
        [PATCH] capabilities for mtrr driver.

        --------------------------------------------------------------
        [PATCH] region handling cleanup

        Done by William Stinson.
        Adds error handling to request_region() calls,
        and converts some old check_region() calls too.

        --------------------------------------------------------------
        [PATCH] region handling cleanup

        Done by William Stinson.
        Adds error handling to request_region() calls,
        and converts some old check_region() calls too.
...
...

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Marcus Alanen
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