Re: Re: Using babel to generate a commit log

["Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com>]

Luke Crook <luke@balooga.com> writes:

> Luke Crook <luke <at> balooga.com> writes:
>
>> 
>> Eric Schulte <schulte.eric <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> > #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var buf=(buffer-file-name (current-buffer)) :exports 
>> both
>> >   (message "buffer %S!" buf)
>> > #+end_src
>> > 
>
> The following code will now generate the commit log. 
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var limit=-1 :var buf=(buffer-name (current-buffer)) 
> :exports results
> ;; Most of this code is copied from vc.el vc-print-log
> (when (vc-find-backend-function (vc-backend (buffer-file-name (get-buffer buf)))
> 				    'print-log)
>   (let ((limit -1)
> 	    (vc-fileset nil)
> 	    (backend nil)
> 	    (files nil))
>     (with-current-buffer (get-buffer buf)
> 	  (setq vc-fileset (vc-deduce-fileset t)) ;FIXME: Why t? --Stef
>       (setq backend (car vc-fileset))
>       (setq files (cadr vc-fileset)))
>     (with-temp-buffer 
>       (let ((status (vc-call-backend backend
> 				         'print-log
> 				         files
> 				         (current-buffer))))
> 	(when (and (processp status) ;; Make sure status is a process
> 		   (= 0 (process-exit-status status))) ;; And that it has not 
> terminated
> 	  (while (not (eq 'exit (process-status status))) ;; Loop and sleep 
> until complete
> 	    (sit-for 1 t)))
> 	(buffer-string)))))
> #+end_src

Great,

Since this could be generally useful would you be willing to add it to
the library of babel (org/contrib/babel/library-of-babel.org)?  If so
then if you could supply a few explanatory sentences, I'll add those and
the code block to the library-of-babel.org distributed with Org-mode.

Thanks -- Eric