git/Announce

#!/bin/sh
# Announcement message skelton
#
branch=${1?branch}
previous=${2?previous}
commit=${3-"$1"}

relname=$(git describe "$commit") &&
vername=$(expr "$relname" : 'v\(.*\)') || exit $?

git rev-parse --verify "$previous" >/dev/null || exit $?

case "$branch" in
maint)
	kind="The latest maintenance release" ;;
mainto/* | maint-[0-9]*)
	kind="An maintenance release" ;;
master)
	kind="The latest feature release" ;;
esac

case "$vername" in
*-rc[0-9]*)
	rpmroot=testing
	vername=$(echo "$vername" | tr "-" ".")
	kind="A release candidate"
	for_testing=" for testing"
	;;
*)
	for_testing=
	rpmroot='RPMS/$arch'
	;;
esac

echo "To: git@vger.kernel.org"
Meta/ProjectContact -b
echo "Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Git $vername
"

fmt -70 <<EOF
$kind Git $vername is available$for_testing.
EOF

cat <<EOF

The release tarballs are found at:

    http://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list

and their SHA-1 checksums are:

bbf85bd767ca6b7e9caa1489bb4ba7ec64e0ab35  git-1.7.7.tar.gz
33183db94fd25e001bd8a9fd6696b992f61e28d8  git-htmldocs-1.7.7.tar.gz
75d3cceb46f7a46eeb825033dff76af5eb5ea3d9  git-manpages-1.7.7.tar.gz

Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v$vername
tag and the $branch branch that the tag points at:

  url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git
  url = https://code.google.com/p/git-core/
  url = git://git.sourceforge.jp/gitroot/git-core/git.git
  url = git://git-core.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/git-core/git-core
  url = https://github.com/gitster/git

----------------------------------------------------------------

Changes since $previous are as follows:

EOF

git log --no-merges "$previous".."$branch" |
git shortlog