git-changelog

I like to use git tag to keep track of revision versions in my code. When I do deliver my code, its usually as a prebuilt binary with code, generated documentation and most importantly a CHANGELOG file. What does happen is that the entire .git tree is not shipped. (Hey, if you need the git tree, just pull off it. You don't need a release).

I tried git-log to generate a CHANGELOG but it does not give me a mapping to tags. So, here's a bash script that does that.


# Generate a nice changelog from git
PREV=
for I in `git tag`; do
echo " ";
git log --pretty=format:" %s" $PREV..$I;
echo " ";
echo $I;
PREV=$I;
done | tac > CHANGELOG


Works like a charm!