Automating nonsense in the cpmgit gitlog

[frodeseverin]

One of the recommendations in the Revision control Wiki is to use gibberish for the gitlog messages when committing in cpmgit.

I propose to automate this giberish using a command similar to this in the 'else' part of the if-clause in the cpmgit script:

git commit -m "$(cat /dev/urandom| tr -dc '0-9a-zA-Z!@#$%^&*_+-'|head -c 8)"

urandom extraction courtsey LinuxQuestions.org

I am by no means an expert in handling '/dev/urandom'. Please feel free to tune the line to perform properly. Perhaps 'dd' is a better tool than 'cat', as 'dd' can easily read a limited number of bytes from '/dev/urandom', and hence perform better. Something like

git commit -m "$(dd if=/dev/urandom bs=100 count=1 | tr -cd '[:alnum:]' | head -c 8)"

should do the trick?

[comotion]

I like it. I have updated the wiki. This is not a place to optimize, but the dd variant uses a safer transliteration. It struck me as needful to make a script-to-make cpmgit repos. Would you like to contribute a script that sets up a cpmgit repository?