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HISTORY.md generator #1

Closed DamonOehlman closed 10 years ago

DamonOehlman commented 10 years ago

From a bit of a search it doesn't seem like there is a good way to generate HISTORY.md files from git history.

I'm thinking the tool should be invoked in the following way:

git log --decorate --pretty=oneline | makehistory > HISTORY.md

It would likely read from a file in the local directory called something like .historyignore which would include a mix of text patterns and git sha values that should be excluded from the generated history list. Ideally no manual processing of the file...

gilmoreorless commented 10 years ago

See also https://github.com/visionmedia/git-extras#git-changelog

DamonOehlman commented 10 years ago

Yeah I'd seen that one and tried to use it. I haven't had much luck generating the full history as it seems to be designed to report on commits since the last tag. I doesn't seem to be geared towards people like me who've been slack with generating changelogs...

gilmoreorless commented 10 years ago

This just popped up in my Twitter feed: https://github.com/lalitkapoor/github-changes

DamonOehlman commented 10 years ago

Exactly the kind of thing that I was thinking of - will check it out :)

DamonOehlman commented 10 years ago

github-changes is looking fantastic so I'll be using that :)