AFNI program: afni_history

afni_history:           show AFNI updates per user, dates or levels

This program is meant to display a log of updates to AFNI code, the
website, educational material, etc.  Users can specify a level of
importance, the author, program or how recent the changes are.

The levels of importance go from 1 to 4, with meanings:
       1 - users would not care
       2 - of little importance, though some users might care
       3 - fairly important
       4 - a big change or new program
       5 - IMPORTANT: we expect users to know

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common examples:

  0. get help

     a. afni_history -help

  1. display all of the history, possibly subject to recent days/entries

     a. afni_history
     b. afni_history -past_days 5
     c. afni_history -past_months 6
     d. afni_history -past_entries 1

  2. select a specific type, level or minimum level

     a. afni_history -level 2
     b. afni_history -min_level 3 -type BUG_FIX
     c. afni_history -type 1 -min_level 3 -past_years 1

  3. select a specific author or program

     a. afni_history -author rickr
     b. afni_history -program afni_proc.py

  4. select level 3+ suma updates from ziad over the past year

     a. afni_history -author ziad -min_level 3 -program suma

  5. generate a web-page, maybe from the past year at at a minimum level

     a. afni_history -html -reverse > afni_hist_all.html
     b. afni_history -html -reverse -min_level 2  > afni_hist_level2.html
     c. afni_history -html -reverse -min_level 3  > afni_hist_level3.html
     d. afni_history -html -reverse -min_level 4  > afni_hist_level4.html

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informational options: 

  -help                    : show this help
  -hist                    : show this program's history
  -list_authors            : show the list of valid authors
  -list_types              : show the list of valid change types
  -ver                     : show this program's version


output restriction options: 

  -author AUTHOR           : restrict output to the given AUTHOR
  -level LEVEL             : restrict output to the given LEVEL
  -min_level LEVEL         : restrict output to at least level LEVEL
  -program PROGRAM         : restrict output to the given PROGRAM

  -past_entries ENTRIES    : restrict output to final ENTRIES entries
  -past_days DAYS          : restrict output to the past DAYS days
  -past_months MONTHS      : restrict output to the past MONTHS months
  -past_years YEARS        : restrict output to the past YEARS years

  -type TYPE               : restrict output to the given TYPE
                             (TYPE = 0..5, or strings 'NEW_PROG', etc.)
                             e.g.  -type NEW_ENV
                             e.g.  -type BUG_FIX

general options: 

  -html                    : add html formatting
  -reverse                 : reverse the sorting order
                             (sort is by date, author, level, program)
  -verb LEVEL              : request verbose output
                             (LEVEL is from 0-6)


                                           Author: Rick Reynolds
                                           Thanks to: Ziad, Bob