genchlg

This is an bash wrapper for changelog-generator, to automatic create, commit, push, an CHANGELOG.md from your git repo commits.

Please, feel free to report issues/bugs to github. You can also leave any suggestion to improve the script.

Why?

During the development of bash_error_lib, i missed an tool to create an CHANGELOG.md for my project. On GitHub i found the repo from @lob. He has the changelog-generator there. This is my choice as base, but there is no "automatic" control in bash.

Usage?

Download/Clone/Install/Setup

mkdir gittmp && cd gittmp
git clone https://github.com/iptoux/genchlg.git

Now, copy genchlg.sh to your git project folder, and make it "executable".

cp genchlg.sh /path/to/your/git/repo
chmod +x /path/to/your/git/repogenchlg.sh

Done! You can now run the command ./genchlg.sh.

Run command in your git repo

cd /path/to/your/git/repo
./genchlg.sh

Important information's

selected parts copied from @lob's repo, because you need this information to use this wrapper successfully.

To use this module, your commit messages have to be in this format: type(category): description [flags]

• breaking build ci chore docs feat fix other perf refactor revert style test

Where flags is an optional comma-separated list of one or more of the following (must be surrounded in square brackets):

breaking: alters type to be a breaking change

And category can be anything of your choice. If you use a type not found in the list (but it still follows the same format of the message), it'll be grouped under other.

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Screens/Output

Images not yet included, the output should somthing like the following.

CLI

iptoux@2040:~/gits/genchlg$ ./genchlg.sh 
CHANGELOG.md gen.
──────────────────────────────────────────────────
[->] Checking depencies: done.
[->] CHANGELOG.md - Type/Mode?
[->] [1:Major (+.x.x)] // [2:Minor (x.+.x)] // [3:Patch (x.x.+)]
[->] Select: 1
[->] Shure? (y/n): y

Generate/Update an Major (+.x.x) CHANGELOG.md in your repository.
──────────────────────────────────────────────────
[->] Generate CHANGELOG.md: done.
[->] Commiting CHANGELOG.md: done.
[->] StepUp version/set tags on repo: done.
[->] Auto-push disabled. You can enable it by setting false (true) in head of this file.
[->] Push it to git? (y/n): y
[->] Select y/Y -> pushing to git: done.

Finish, all steps done!

iptoux@2040:~/gits/genchlg$ 

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@Todo

• Adding script auto-update.