victorermakov / tacitus-notes

Generate release notes from git history, using markdown syntax.

tacitus-notes

Publius Cornelius Tacitus was a Roman historian and politician. And quite recently, he started writing notes on our git repositories.

the dream

Walk through git log, up to last tag or target commit, and collect each commit message in a markdown format:

• prettify it,
• replace ticket numbers with urls
• print on console

shellscript version

git describe --tags --abbrev=0
git log $(git describe --tags --abbrev=0)..HEAD --oneline

python version

First, install the tiny script:

$ pip install tacitus-notes

Then, run this command in your project directory and see what happens:

$ tacitus-notes