Shell script to make a log message template

For anyone interested, attached is the shell script I use to generate a log message template for a particular svn diff. It runs 'svn status' on the given target(s) to find what files to include, then 'svn diff' for each file, and writes to stdout a log message and diff in the following format: [[[ * file/.../name.c   (func_name): [...] --- This line and [...] will be ignored --- Index: file/.../name.c ================== [...] ]]] The "This line ..." line allows me to use this whole text as the log message input file when committing. By using diff options "no context lines" and "show C function names" for generating the template part of the output, it gets most function names right in C files, but get lots of them wrong in header files where the edits are in a comment preceding a declaration. - Julian