git-changelog-command-line

Git Changelog Command Line

This is a command line tool for generating a changelog, or releasenotes, from a GIT repository. It uses the Git Changelog Lib.

There are some screenshots here.

The runnable can be found in Maven Central or NPM.

A changelog can be created like this.

npx git-changelog-command-line -std -tec "
# Changelog

Changelog for {{ownerName}} {{repoName}}.

{{#tags}}
## {{name}}
 {{#issues}}
  {{#hasIssue}}
   {{#hasLink}}
### {{name}} [{{issue}}]({{link}}) {{title}} {{#hasIssueType}} *{{issueType}}* {{/hasIssueType}} {{#hasLabels}} {{#labels}} *{{.}}* {{/labels}} {{/hasLabels}}
   {{/hasLink}}
   {{^hasLink}}
### {{name}} {{issue}} {{title}} {{#hasIssueType}} *{{issueType}}* {{/hasIssueType}} {{#hasLabels}} {{#labels}} *{{.}}* {{/labels}} {{/hasLabels}}
   {{/hasLink}}
  {{/hasIssue}}
  {{^hasIssue}}
### {{name}}
  {{/hasIssue}}

  {{#commits}}
**{{{messageTitle}}}**

{{#messageBodyItems}}
 * {{.}} 
{{/messageBodyItems}}

[{{hash}}](https://github.com/{{ownerName}}/{{repoName}}/commit/{{hash}}) {{authorName}} *{{commitTime}}*

  {{/commits}}

 {{/issues}}
{{/tags}}
"

Or, with the JAR from Central, do java -jar git-changelog-command-line-*.jar ....

There are more examples here.

Usage

Or from command line:

Checkout the Git Changelog Lib for more documentation.

Developer instructions

To build the code, have a look at .travis.yml.

To do a release you need to do ./gradlew release and release the artifact from staging. More information here.

Changelog

1.65.0 (2021-05-23)

Other changes

New version: 1.65.0 [GRADLE SCRIPT]

8fdff Tomas Bjerre 2021-05-23 16:54:15

feat support semantic versioning

38d61 Tomas Bjerre 2021-05-23 16:53:14

Updating changelog with 1.64.0 [GRADLE SCRIPT]

f4814 Tomas Bjerre 2021-05-23 16:45:50