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grep-changelog(1) General Commands Manual grep-changelog(1)

NAME

grep-changelog - print ChangeLog entries matching criteria

SYNOPSIS

grep-changelog [options] [CHANGELOG...]

DESCRIPTION

grep-changelog searches the named CHANGELOGs (by default files matching the regular expressions ChangeLog and ChangeLog\.[0-9]+) for entries matching the specified criteria. At least one option or file must be specified. This program is distributed with GNU Emacs.

OPTIONS

The program accepts unambiguous abbreviations for option names.

Print entries whose author matches regular expression AUTHOR.
Print entries whose text matches regular expression TEXT.
Exclude entries matching regular expression TEXT.
Only consider entries made on or after the given date. ChangeLog date entries not in the “YYYY-MM-DD” format are never matched.
Only consider entries made on or before the given date.
Print output in a format suitable for RCS log entries. This format removes author lines, leading spaces, and file names.
In RCS log format, print short dates.
Show matches in reverse order.
Display version information.
Display basic usage information.

COPYING

Copyright (C) 2008-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this document provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies.

Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this document under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one.

Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this document into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a translation approved by the Free Software Foundation.