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git-cliff can generate changelog files from the Git history by utilizing conventional commits as well as regex-powered custom parsers. The changelog template can be customized with a configuration file to match the desired format.

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Documentation

Learn how to use git-cliff from the official documentation.

- Installation
- Usage
- Configuration
- Templating

You can also check out the blog posts written by the community:

- An introduction to git-cliff for release management: Learn how to automate your software releases
- Git-cliff and monorepos: An introduction to the monorepo capabilities of git-cliff
- git-cliff: The Smart Way to Handle Changelogs

In The Media

- Turning Git commits into changelog with git-cliff - RustLab 2023 (Talk)
- An Interview with Orhun of git-cliff - Console #141 (Newsletter)
- KaiCode Open Source Festival 2024 (Second place winner)

Editor Support

- git-cliff.el - Generate, update and release changelog in Emacs

Similar/Related Projects

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- cocogitto - A set of CLI tools for the conventional commit and semver specifications.
- cliff-jumper - A NodeJS CLI tool that combines git-cliff and
conventional-recommended-bump
to semantically bump a NodeJS package and generate a git-cliff powered changelog.
- release-plz - Release Rust packages from CI.
- git-changelog-command-line - Generate changelog and determine next version with conventional commits.
- git-changelog: Automatic Changelog generator using Jinja2 templates.