Import Soul Wouldn’t it be nice if things just worked

28Jun/110

pyGitBook

As part of doing the report for my Software Design and Development project i tried to find an easy tool that i could use to convert all of my git history into a basic (but nice looking) logbook that i could hand in as part of the project.

Unfortunately i couldn't find any tools that would do this for me. The closest i could find was the commit log that git-hub provided something similar to what i was after but provided alot of stuff such as avatars and commit hashes that i didn't need.

So i decided to quickly whip up a script to pass output from git-log and turn it into a nicely crafted logbook.

To interface with git i originally looked into GitPython but it proved to be rather buggy and hard to work with so i ended up going the much more low tech method of just parsing the output of a standard git-log command.

For the output i decided that using HTML via Jinja2 would be the easiest method as it would allow the template to be updated very easily down the track.

Eventually i came up with a system that i am reasonably happy with, it could do with a bit more work but it will do for now, at least until i have got all my projects out of the way.

An example of the output can be seen HERE

The script is available on github at https://github.com/Hugoagogo/pyGitBook

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