Changelog Management

About

Automates the creation and maintenance of CHANGELOG.md files by parsing your git commit history. This skill understands conventional commit messages to automatically categorize changes into sections like Features, Bug Fixes, and Performance Improvements. It supports two primary workflows: automatically generating and inserting a new version section for a formal release, and generating entries for manual addition to an '[Unreleased]' section during daily development. This is ideal for teams looking to standardize their release notes, prepare for a new version, or simply document changes between commits.

Key Features

• 2 GitHub stars
• Provides a script to automate the insertion of new version sections for releases.
• Supports distinct workflows for formal releases versus daily development updates.
• Automatically categorizes commits based on Conventional Commits format (e.g., feat, fix, docs).
• Offers customization for output, including excluding commit types, stripping emojis, and JSON format.
• Analyzes git history between specific tags or commit ranges to generate changelog entries.

Use Cases

• Documenting changes in an '[Unreleased]' section during daily development.
• Updating a changelog with recent changes before a new version release.
• Generating a new CHANGELOG.md file for a project.