git-changelog
| License (Code): | GPLv2 |
|---|---|
| License (Text): | CC-BY |
| Tags: | git, Python 3 |
For my jscribble project, I use git. The human readable changes are stored in the annotated tags itself. So I have a tag called v1.5.3 which contains the text that you can read in the changelog. That way, the information is not spread out in the git repository (the microscopic changes) and the changelog file (the macroscopic changes) but combined in the git repository.
Each tag description is parsed, which strips all the irrelevant git information (the commit id, the whole patch, time and author) as well as the GnuPG signature and generates a clean changelog.
The generated changelog looks like this:
v1.5.3
* Add Java Webstart.
* Create extensive manual page.
- Fix drawing dots (broken since v1.5.2).
- Allow movements with extra mouse buttons (enable in config).
- Add config option to disable eraser.
It will only use the tags that are in your current branch. If you have two branches for two versions of your program, like v2-series and v3-series, you do not want the versions that start with a 3 to show up in your other changelog.
In case you do want them all, there is an --all option.
And if you want more control, you can specify a regular expression with the --filter option.
download the source
Latest release: git-changelog_1.6.tar.gz
Other releases: git-changelog download folder
You can also download (clone) the git repository from: