Hoe Loves Git¶ ↑

• github.com/jbarnette/hoe-git

• docs.seattlerb.org/hoe-git

A set of Hoe plugins for tighter Git integration. Provides tasks to automate release tagging and pushing and changelog generation. I expect it’ll learn a few more tricks in the future.

# in your Rakefile
Hoe.plugin :git

If this plugin doesn’t see a .git directory at the root of your project, it’ll silently deactivate itself.

$ rake git:changelog

This takes all the commit messages since your last release and formats ‘em into a nice RDoc fragment. If you specify VERSION, it’ll be used in the changelog fragment. If you specify FROM, it’ll be used as a starting point for the changelog instead of your last tagged release.

The rdoc is automatically formatted into sections by using “annotated commit messages” by using a simple format for multi-line commit messages:

! major change description.
+ minor change description.
- bug fix description.
un-logged description (for minor stuff like re-formatting).

$ rake git:manifest

This will regenerate Manifest.txt using git ls-files. It respects Hoe’s manifest sort order and excludes.

$ rake release VERSION=1.0.0

In addition to the normal RubyForge release process, this will create and push a v1.0.0 tag. It’ll also abort the release if your index is dirty, or if there are untracked files present.

The git:changelog and git:tag tasks understand git-svn repositories, and will adjust their behavior accordingly.

Hoe and Git, obviously. I wouldn’t be surprised if things don’t quite work for git < 1.6.3.

$ gem install hoe-git

• Release tags are sorted lexicographically right now, which won’t work for long.

Copyright 2009 John Barnette (jbarnette@rubyforge.org)

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