CHANGELOG Generation

Concept

Manual CHANGELOGs rot. Auto-generate from conventional commits.

If your commit messages follow type(scope): subject, tools can extract them per release:

conventional-changelog — npx conventional-changelog -p angular -i CHANGELOG.md -s
release-please (GitHub-native, runs in Actions, opens release PRs)
semantic-release — also bumps versions and publishes packages

GitHub itself can auto-generate notes from PRs since the last tag (Releases → "Generate release notes").

Quick manual export between two tags:

git log v1.0.0..HEAD --oneline --no-merges

Pipe that to a tool or paste into release notes. Reviewers love a structured changelog.

Challenge

List commits since the last tag

WorkshopSimulated · no real damage

Terminal~/project·main

Idle

Working treemain

Not a git repository. git init to start.

Commit graph

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Commits will appear here.

Each command rewrites this graph in real time.