git: changelog day by day

Question

How to generate changelog of commits groupped by date, in format:

[date today]
- commit message1
- commit message2
- commit message3
...
[date day+3]
- commi         


        

Answer 1

That would require most certainly some kind of script.
A bit like this commandline-fu

for k in `git branch|perl -pe s/^..//`;do echo -e `git show --pretty=format:"%Cgreen%ci %Cblue%cr%Creset" $k|head -n 1`\\t$k;done|sort -r

(not exactly what you are after but can gives you an idea nonetheless)

I know about GitStats which has also data organized by date (but not the commit messages)

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Note: the git branch part of this command is ill-fitted for scripting, as Jakub Narębski comments.
git for-each-ref or git show-ref are natural candidate for scripting commands, being plumbing commands.