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When updating a rpm package it is nice to include a summary of the changes made since the last time. anaconda does this with a nifty script written by dcantrell called makebumpver which also enforces some RHEL rules and handles changing the version. I only needed the changelog part of this so I modified the script a bit to remove the extras: #!/usr/bin/python # # git-changelog - Output a rpm changelog # # Copyright (C) 2009-2010 Red Hat, Inc.

By default git on OSX wasn't colorizing its output. Two things needed to be setup - setting the color.ui to auto and setting the pager (less) to allow raw characters. Add this to ~/.gitconfig [color] ui = auto [core] pager = less -R Presto! Nice colorized output from git!