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- [License](#license)
Changelog generation has never been so easy.
### Changelog generation has never been so easy:
**Fully automate changelog generation** - This gem generate change log file based on tags, issues and merged pull requests from **Github issue tracker**. This generator complies all [change log format guidelines](http://keepachangelog.com/).
**Fully automate changelog generation** - This gem generate change log file based on **tags**, **issues** and merged **pull requests** (and split them to separate lists according labels) from :octocat: GitHub Issue Tracker.
Since now you don't have to fill your `CHANGELOG.md` manually: just run script, relax and take a cup of :coffee: before your next release!
### *What’s the point of a change log?*
To make it easier for users and contributors to see precisely what notable changes have been made between each release (or version) of the project.
## Installation
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It's time to create this token or wait for 1 hour before GitHub reset the counter for your IP.
##Features and advantages of this project
- Generate canonical change log file, followed by [keepachangelog.com guidlines](http://keepachangelog.com/)
- Generate canonical, neat change log file, followed by [basic change log guidlines](http://keepachangelog.com/) :gem:
- Possible to generate **Unreleased** changes (closed issues that have not released yet)
- **GitHub Enterprise support** via command line options!
- Flexible format **customisation**:
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- **Custom date format** supported
- Ability to manually specify in which version issue was fixed (in case, when closed date is not match) by setting `milestone` of issue the same name as tag of required version
- Ability to **exclude specific issues** from change log (by labels)
- **Automatically exclude "questions"** - issues marked as `question` labels (and other issues, that shouldn't be in change log file: with `duplicate invalid wontfix` labels)
- **Automatically exclude "questions"** - issues marked as `question` labels (and other issues, that shouldn't be in change log file: with `duplicate invalid wontfix` labels) :scissors:
- **Distinguish** bug fixes, enchantments, and closed issues **according labels**.
- Issues (closed issues w/o any labels)
- Merged pull-requests (all merged pull-requests)
- Bug-fixes (by label `bug` in issue)
- Enhancements (by label `enhancement` in issue)
- Issues (closed issues w/o any labels)
- You manualy can set which labels should be included/excluded and apply a lot of other customisations, to fit changelog for your personal style :tophat: (*look `github_changelog_generator --help` for details)*
###Alternatives
Here is a [wikipage list of alternatives](https://github.com/skywinder/Github-Changelog-Generator/wiki/Alternatives), that I found. But no one was satisfy my requirements.