Refactor gitlogg-generate-log.sh

Refactor cleanup steps between git log output and json parser
This specifically resolved an issue with processing git commits
that had been reverted and lacked any short stats in output.

scripts/gitlogg-generate-log.sh

@@ -72,24 +72,17 @@ if [ -d "${yourpathSanitized}" ] && [ "$(ls $yourpathSanitized)" ]; then
       (cd $dir &&
         echo -e " ${Whi}Outputting ${Pur}${PWD##*/}${RCol}" >&2 &&
         git log --all --no-merges --shortstat --reverse --pretty=format:'commits\trepository\t'"${PWD##*/}"'\tcommit_hash\t%H\tcommit_hash_abbreviated\t%h\ttree_hash\t%T\ttree_hash_abbreviated\t%t\tparent_hashes\t%P\tparent_hashes_abbreviated\t%p\tauthor_name\t%an\tauthor_name_mailmap\t%aN\tauthor_email\t%ae\tauthor_email_mailmap\t%aE\tauthor_date\t%ad\tauthor_date_RFC2822\t%aD\tauthor_date_relative\t%ar\tauthor_date_unix_timestamp\t%at\tauthor_date_iso_8601\t%ai\tauthor_date_iso_8601_strict\t%aI\tcommitter_name\t%cn\tcommitter_name_mailmap\t%cN\tcommitter_email\t%ce\tcommitter_email_mailmap\t%cE\tcommitter_date\t%cd\tcommitter_date_RFC2822\t%cD\tcommitter_date_relative\t%cr\tcommitter_date_unix_timestamp\t%ct\tcommitter_date_iso_8601\t%ci\tcommitter_date_iso_8601_strict\t%cI\tref_names\t%d\tref_names_no_wrapping\t%D\tencoding\t%e\tsubject\t%s\tsubject_sanitized\t%f\tcommit_notes\t%N\tstats\t' |
-          iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 |       # convert ISO-8859-1 encoding to UTF-8
-          sed '/^[ \t]*$/d' |                  # remove all newlines/line-breaks, including those with empty spaces
-          tr '\n' 'ȝ' |                        # convert newlines/line-breaks to a character, so we can manipulate it without much trouble
-          tr '\r' ' ' |                        # replace carriage returns with a space, so we avoid new lines popping from placeholders that allow user input
-          sed 's/tȝcommits/tȝȝcommits/g' |     # because some commits have no stats, we have to create an extra line-break to make `paste -d ' ' - -` consistent
-          tr 'ȝ' '\n' |                        # bring back all line-breaks
-          sed '{
-              N
-              s/[)]\n\ncommits/)\
-          commits/g
-          }' |                                 # some rogue mystical line-breaks need to go down to their knees and beg for mercy, which they're not getting
-          paste -d ' ' - - |                   # collapse lines so that the `shortstat` is merged with the rest of the commit data, on a single line
-          awk '{print NR"\\t",$0}' |           # print line number in front of each line, along with the `\t` delimiter
-          sed 's/\\t\ commits\\trepo/\\t\commits\\trepo/g' # get rid of the one space that shouldn't be there
+          iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 |                    # convert ISO-8859-1 encoding to UTF-8
+          sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\ncommits/\n\ncommits/g' |       # because some commits have no stats, we have to create an extra line-break for consistancy
+          tr '\r' ' ' |                                     # replace carriage returns with a space, so we avoid new lines popping from placeholders that allow user input                  
+          sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/tstats\\t\n//g'|                 # collapse lines so that the `shortstat` is merged with the rest of the commit data, on a single line
+          sed '/^[ \t]*$/d' |                               # some rogue mystical line-breaks need to go down to their knees and beg for mercy, which they're not getting
+          awk '{print NR"\\t",$0}' |                        # print line number in front of each line, along with the `\t` delimiter
+          sed 's/\\t\ commits\\trepo/\\t\commits\\trepo/g'  # get rid of the one space that shouldn't be there
       )
   done > "${tempOutputFile}"
   echo -e "\n ${Gre}The file ${Blu}${tempOutputFile} ${Gre}generated in${RCol}: ${SECONDS}s" &&
-  babel "${jsonParser}" | node                 # only parse JSON if we have a source to parse it from
+  babel "${jsonParser}" | node                # only parse JSON if we have a source to parse it from
 # if the path exists but is empty
 elif [ -d "${yourpathSanitized}" ] && [ ! "$(ls $yourpathSanitized)" ]; then
   echo -e "\n ${Whi}[ERROR 002]: ${Yel}The path to the local repositories ${Red}'${yourpath}'${Yel}, which is set on the file ${Blu}'${thisFile}' ${UYel}exists, but is empty!${RCol}"