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Convert Git logs to JSON. The first script (git-log2json.sh) is all you need, the other two files contain only optional bonus features 😀THIS GIST NOW HAS A FULL GIT REPO: https://github.com/context-driven-testing-toolkit/git-log2json
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#!/usr/bin/env bash | |
# Use this one-liner to produce a JSON literal from the Git log: | |
git log \ | |
--pretty=format:'{%n "commit": "%H",%n "author": "%aN <%aE>",%n "date": "%ad",%n "message": "%f"%n},' \ | |
$@ | \ | |
perl -pe 'BEGIN{print "["}; END{print "]\n"}' | \ | |
perl -pe 's/},]/}]/' |
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#!/usr/bin/env bash | |
# OPTIONAL: use this stand-alone shell script to produce a JSON object | |
# with information similar to git --stat. | |
# | |
# You can then easily cross-reference or merge this with the JSON git | |
# log, since both are keyed on the commit hash, which is unique. | |
git log \ | |
--numstat \ | |
--format='%H' \ | |
$@ | \ | |
perl -lawne ' | |
if (defined $F[1]) { | |
print qq#{"insertions": "$F[0]", "deletions": "$F[1]", "path": "$F[2]"},# | |
} elsif (defined $F[0]) { | |
print qq#],\n"$F[0]": [# | |
}; | |
END{print qq#],#}' | \ | |
tail -n +2 | \ | |
perl -wpe 'BEGIN{print "{"}; END{print "}"}' | \ | |
tr '\n' ' ' | \ | |
perl -wpe 's#(]|}),\s*(]|})#$1$2#g' | \ | |
perl -wpe 's#,\s*?}$#}#' |
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/* | |
* OPTIONAL: use this Node.js expression to merge the data structures | |
* created by the two shell scripts above | |
*/ | |
var gitLog, lstat; | |
gitLog = require('git-log.json'); | |
lstat = require('git-stat.json'); | |
gitLog.map(function(o){ | |
o.paths = lstat[o.commit]; | |
}); |
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#!/usr/bin/env bash | |
# OPTIONAL: Use jq to merge the two JSON files. | |
jq --slurp '.[1] as $logstat | .[0] | map(.paths = $logstat[.commit])' git-log.json git-stat.json |
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You can use
jq
itself to escape everything:It's a bit clunky, but should handle any weird formatting. Basically, format the log using NUL-terminated lines with tab column separators, then pass that into
jq
for escaping, treating all empty strings asnull
.