chglog

chglog is a changelog management library and tool

Why

While there are other tool out there that will create a changelog output as part of their workflow none of the ones I could find did so in a way that allowed formatting the output via multiple templates.

The need to multiple output formats was being driven by the desire to add changelog support to https://github.com/goreleaser/nfpm and the deb and rpm changelog formats not being the same.

Goals

• be simple to use
• provide decent default templates for deb, rpm, release and repository style changelog formats
• be distributed as a single binary
• reproducible results
  • depend on the fewer external things as possible
  • store changelog in a transportable format (.yml)
• be possible to use it as a lib in other go projects (namely goreleaser itself)

Install

go install github.com/goreleaser/chglog/cmd/chglog@latest

Usage

The first steps are to run chglog config to initialize a configuration file (.chglog.yml) and edit the generated file according to your needs:

conventional-commits: false
exclude-merge-commits: false
deb:
  distribution: []
  urgency: ""
debug: false
owner: ""
package-name: ""

The next step is to run chglog init.

- semver: 0.0.1
  date: 2019-10-18T16:05:33-07:00
  packager: dj gilcrease <example@example.com>
  changes:
    - commit: 2c499787328348f09ae1e8f03757c6483b9a938a
      note: |-
        oops i forgot to use Conventional Commits style message

        This should NOT break anything even if I am asking to build the changelog using Conventional Commits style message
    - commit: 3ec1e9a60d07cc060cee727c97ffc8aac5713943
      note: |-
        feat: added file two feature

        BREAKING CHANGE: this is a backwards incompatible change
    - commit: 2cc00abc77d401a541d18c26e5c7fbef1effd3ed
      note: |-
        feat: added the fileone feature

        * This is a test repo
        * so ya!

Then to generate a CHANGELOG.md file you would do chglog format --template repo > CHANGELOG.md

Now whenever you go to do another release you would do chglog add --version v#.#.# (version MUST be semver format)

And that's it!

Usage as lib

You can look at the code of chglog itself to see how to use it as a library

Status

• alpha

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