Merge PR #10828: Simple script to prefill a changelog entry

Reviewed-by: Zimmi48

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/dev/tools/make-changelog.sh b/dev/tools/make-changelog.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+echo "PR number"
+read -r PR
+
+echo "Where? (type a prefix)"
+(cd doc/changelog && ls -d */)
+read -r where
+
+where=$(echo doc/changelog/"$where"*)
+where="$where/$PR-$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD).rst"
+
+# shellcheck disable=SC2016
+# the ` are regular strings, this is intended
+# use %s for the leading - to avoid looking like an option (not sure
+# if necessary but doesn't hurt)
+printf '%s bla bla (`#%s <https://github.com/coq/coq/pull/%s>`_, by %s).' - "$PR" "$PR" "$(git config user.name)" > "$where"
+
+giteditor=$(git config core.editor)
+if [ "$giteditor" ]; then
+    $giteditor "$where"
+elif [ "$EDITOR" ]; then
+    $EDITOR "$where"
+else echo "$where"
+fi