Automatically write changelog to CHANGELOG.md in GitHub

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keto23 picture keto23 · May 18, 2013 · Viewed 10.9k times · Source

Is there any way to automatically generate change logs from commit messages to a file called CHANGELOG.md in a GitHub repo?

Might be possible using a service hook on a repo?

Answer

Martin Seeler picture Martin Seeler · Oct 22, 2013

I have written something like this some months ago. It is based on Git's porcelain and uses a git hook in plain bash.

You can find it in my Github Repo.

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