grunt-git-changelog-generator

Generate markdown changelogs from git log messages and tags

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.5

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-git-changelog-generator --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-git-changelog-generator');

The "git_changelog_generator" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named git_changelog_generator to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  git_changelog_generator: {
    options: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
      repo: 'https://github.com/opentable/grunt-git-changelog-generator',
      changelog: './CHANGELOG.md'
    }
  },
});

Options

options.repo

Type: String Default value: none

A string value that is used to do add links pointing to the specific PR related in the repo, it should be the URL of the live repo.

options.changelog

Type: String Default value: './CHANGELOG.md'

A string value that is used to write the path/file with the changelog content. By default the plugin will generate and write to ./CHANGELOG.md