repo2html/msgfmt

#!/bin/bash
#
# Formats a Git commit message
#
#  Copyright (C) 2012  Mike Gerwitz
#
#  This file is part of repo2html.
#
#  This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
#  the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
#  (at your option) any later version.
#
#  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
#  GNU General Public License for more details.
#
#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
#  along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
# #

# format the commit message, stopping at the diff (if any)
awk '/^diff --git/ { exit } { print }' \
  | sed ':a;N;$!ba;
    # escaping
    s/</\&lt;/g;
    s/>/\&gt;/g;
    s/\&/\&amp;/g;

    # unfortunately, non-greedy matches make it difficult to exclude punctuation
    # at the end of a link, so we will not be handling it here (since links
    # should always be in the footer as references (ideally), this should not
    # happen
    s#[fh]ttps\?://[^]\n )]\+#<a href="&">&</a>#g;

    # paragraphs
    s#\n\[[0-9]\+\]#</p><p>&#g;
    s#\n\n#</p>&<p>#g;

    # basic formatting
    s/---/\&mdash;/g;
    s#``#\&ldquo;#g;
    s#'\'\''#\&rdquo;#g;
  '