git-cliff can generate changelog files from the Git history by utilizing conventional commits as well as regex-powered custom parsers. The changelog template can be customized with a configuration file to match the desired format.
Learn how to use git-cliff from the documentation.
- Turning Git commits into changelog with git-cliff - RustLab 2023 (Talk)
- An Interview with Orhun of git-cliff - Console #141 (Newsletter)
- KaiCode Open Source Festival 2024 (Second place winner)
- git-cliff: The Smart Way to Handle Changelogs (Blog post)
- git-cliff.el - Generate, update and release changelog in Emacs
- git-journal - The Git Commit Message and Changelog Generation Framework
- clog-cli - Generate beautiful changelogs from your Git commit history
- relnotes - A tool to automatically generate release notes for your project.
- cocogitto - A set of CLI tools for the conventional commit and semver specifications.
- cliff-jumper - A NodeJS CLI tool that combines git-cliff and conventional-recommended-bump to semantically bump a NodeJS package and generate a git-cliff powered changelog.
- release-plz - Release Rust packages from CI.
- git-changelog-command-line - Generate changelog and determine next version with conventional commits.
- git-changelog: Automatic Changelog generator using Jinja2 templates.
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