Re: Replacement for cvs2cl, for generating ChangeLog

Simon Josefsson [off-list ref] writes:

Hi!  I'm considering switching to git for my projects (shishi, gsasl,
gnutls, libtasn1, opencdk, ...) and I have some questions:

* How do I discard all locally modified or added files?  'cvs upd -C'
  does some of that, but I've been using a tool 'cvsco' which quickly
  restore a CVS checkout into a pristine state.

"git reset --hard" (RTFM).

* Is there a tool that produce ChangeLog files in the GNU format,
  based on the git logs?  Similar to the 'cvs2cl' tool.  The output
  should look like:

No, but that should probably be trivial.  I would suggest you
postprocess "git log --pretty --numstat --summary" output, which
is probably the most parsable.