Updated release instructions to add hyperlinks to commits

Author: nickgammon

how_to_release.txt

@@ -77,14 +77,25 @@ DO ANNOUNCEMENT
 1. Copy previous announcement from forum and paste into Crimson Editor
 2. Change version number (eg. 4.53 to 4.54) and executable file name: (eg. 453 to 454)
 3. Near the end change the "git diff" and "git log" lines to update the *previous* version (eg. 4.52 to 4.53)
-4. Run the updated "git diff" and "git log" commands, pasting the results into the announcement
+4. Run the updated "git diff" and "git log" commands, pasting the results into the announcement (see below)
 5. Update the size of the installer (eg. from 2.79 Mb to 2.80 Mb)
 6. Update the MD5sum hex figure in the announcement
 7. Amend the "improvements" lines in the announcement to reflect the major changes
 8. Paste resulting message into a new forum message announcing the new release
 9. Find the post number of that new message and amend forum database table bbsection, record 1 (MUSHclient section) to show the latest release and forum post to read about it.
 
 
+Run this code in the Immediate window of MUSHclient to convert the "git log" lines to have hyperlinks:
+----------------------
+for x, desc in string.gmatch (GetClipboard (), "(%x+) ([^\n]+)") do
+  print (string.format (
+    '<a href="http://github.com/nickgammon/mushclient/commit/%s">%s</a> %s',
+    x, x, FixupHTML (desc)))
+end -- for
+----------------------
+
+
+
 UPDATE RELEASE NOTES
 
 1. Change record for relnotes for this release to have today's date as release date