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.
- 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
- 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