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Ask HN: How do you generate changelogs for repositories?

3 points by imjacobclark ↗ HN
How do you generate changelogs in git repos? GitHub has a really good 'releases' feature that builds on tagging, but how do you create your changelog when you may have hundreds of commits where the messages are not all that relevant?

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svisser
The changelog should be a document written by humans for humans.

So you manually maintain the changelog while working on fixes / features and you add any remaining notes just prior to each release.