git changelog - Automatic markdown changelog generator

Preconditions

This will help you if following preconditiona are met:

• Your project follows http://semver.org
• Semver versions are git tags
• You accept changes exclusevely via PRs (i.e. there are git merges)
• Each PR has tags in the beggining of git title (ex. [fixes] [bug] [new feature] etc)

Installation

$ go get github.com/kron4eg/git-changelog
$ mv $GOPATH/bin/git-changelog /usr/loca/bin/ # actually anywhere in the $PATH

Usage

$ cd your/git/repo
$ git changelog > CHANGELOG.md
$ git add CHANGELOG.md; git commit

Limitations

Currently only one tag per merge (PR) is supported