Git-cliff: generate changelog files from the Git history

• git-cliff

  33 7,536 9.7 Rust

  A highly customizable Changelog Generator that follows Conventional Commit specifications ⛰️

• auto-changelog-action

  1 68 0.0 Shell

We’ve been using charmixer/auto-changelog-action to generate release notes. This action makes nice references to GitHub pull requests. The release notes are attached to a GitHub release by an action. This turns out to be an invaluable reference for SQA and Product Manager for testing and creating customer-facing release notes.

One downside is that we run into trouble with GitHub API rate-limiting.

https://github.com/charmixer/auto-changelog-action

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• shipkit-changelog

  1 59 5.1 Java

  Minimalistic Gradle plugin that generates changelog based on commit history and GitHub pull requests/issues

  

A similar project, tightly integrated with Gradle: https://github.com/shipkit/shipkit-changelog

• cargo-update

  11 1,125 6.6 Rust

  A cargo subcommand for checking and applying updates to installed executables

I initially was interested in Rust because of performance + speed + safety, but now I have to say that cargo is a big selling point for me.

I always used to be scared of compiling software myself because I never seemed to be able to get it to work without endless headaches. Now, I generally find it easy to compile Rust programs if they aren't in my package manager, and with cargo install-update https://github.com/nabijaczleweli/cargo-update I find it easy to keep the software up to date. I have higher confidence that I can get hobbyist Rust software working, and the more Rust software I use, the more familiar I am with the ecosystem and the more comfortable I am.

If this was written in some obscure language I wasn't familiar with, I'd be less confident I would be able to run it at all, let alone keep it updated, and I may not bother even trying to install it.

• gnulib

  7 262 9.8 C

  upstream mirror

  

gnulib and a lot of GNU projects have this for a long time. https://github.com/coreutils/gnulib/blob/master/build-aux/gi...

• GitHub Changelog Generator

  3 7,291 6.5 Ruby

  Automatically generate change log from your tags, issues, labels and pull requests on GitHub.

  

• github-changel

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• committed

  5 94 8.2 Rust

  Nitpicking commit history since beabf39

  

While auto-generated changelogs aren't the best, they are better than nothing. Too often I've seen projects without a changelog which is especially annoying when dealing with breaking changes.

I've been considering switching to a changelog generator, either from Conventional Commits or from a folder of files just to avoid merge conflicts with the CHANGELOG file.

If people want enforcement of Conventional Commit, check out https://github.com/crate-ci/committed

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