git-changerelease

Luzifer / git-changerelease

git-changerelease is a git-subcommand to write the changelog in a consistent format and tag it using semantic versioning. You can see the version it writes in the History.md file in this repository.

Features

• Specify regular expressions to match the commit subject against for automated detection of major / minor / patch releases
• Automatically write Changelog from commits
• Start editor to change the Changelog (and the version) before tagging

Usage

• Generate a configuration file using git changerelease --create-config
• Edit your matchers in the configuration file just created
• Commit and release:

# git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/test/.git/

# git commit --allow-empty -m 'add an empty commit'
[master (root-commit) 0cc02e6] add an empty commit

# git-changerelease
# git describe --tags HEAD
v0.1.0

# git commit --allow-empty -m 'fix another empty commit'
[master 69d6f0e] fix another empty commit

# git-changerelease
# git describe --tags HEAD
v0.1.1