logchange

Automatically generate a new version and changelog by parsing angular style git commit messages.

No need for installation, logchange can just be executed through npx.

Add npx logchange as a script to your package.json

{
 ...
 "scripts": {
 ...
 "logchange": "npx logchange"
 }
}

$ npm install -g logchange

$ npm install logchange

Add logchange as a script to your package.json

{
 ...
 "scripts": {
 ...
 "logchange": "logchange"
 }
}

feat(Scope): message
BREAKING CHANGE:
Some breaking change here.

This will increment the MAJOR version.

feat(Scope): message

This will increment the MINOR version.

fix(Scope): message

This will increment the PATCH version.

 Usage: version [options]
 Options:
 -h, --help output usage information
 -V, --version output the version number
 -j, --json just output a version as json
 -s, --stdout output to stdout instead of file
 -f, --format <format> format to output in [markdown, html]
 -o, --file <file> changelog file to read/write

1. Write your code
2. Commit your code using angular style commits
3. Test your code
4. Run npx logchange (node 8.2.0+) / Run npm run logchange (locally) / Run logchange (globally)
5. Commit your package.json and CHANGELOG.md with a chore(Version): updating version and changelog message. - message doesn't really matter - as long as its a chore otherwise, it may increment your version the next time you run npx logchange

• fix issue with multiple version being bumped per execution.
• rewrite to support testing/coverage
• rework options to be a bit more intuitive
• add logchange scopes to iterate over the git log and return all the scopes already used
• create contributors template, automatically increment number of commits against each contributor
• add logchange current to output the current version
• add logchange next to output what the next version will be
• format the scopes to all start with a capital letter, regardless of what case was used in the commit