Github Changelog Generator

This script automatically generate change-log from your tags and merged pull-requests.

Installation:

gem install github_changelog_generator

Usage:

	Usage: github_changelog_generator -u user_name -p project_name [-t 16-digit-GitHubToken] [options]
	    -u, --user [USER]                your username on GitHub
	    -p, --project [PROJECT]          name of project on GitHub
	    -t, --token [TOKEN]              To make more than 50 requests this app required your OAuth token for GitHub. You can generate it on https://github.com/settings/applications
	    -h, --help                       Displays Help
	    -v, --[no-]verbose               Run verbosely
	    -l, --last-changes               generate log between last 2 tags
	    -f, --date-format [FORMAT]       date format. default is %d/%m/%y

Example usage:

github_changelog_generator -u your-username -p your-project [-t 16-digit-GitHub-token-for-more-than-50-requests]

In output you will get [your_project]_changelog.md file with pretty Markdown-formatted changelogs in your current directory.

Real examples:

These changelog was generated by

github_changelog_generator -u skywinder -p ActionSheetPicker-3.0:

ActionSheetPicker-3.0/CHANGELOG.md

FAQ

Since GitHub allow to make only 50 requests without authentication it's recommended to run this scrip with key -t [your 16 digit token] that you can easily generate here.

So, if you got error like this:

! /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/github_api-0.12.2/lib/github_api/response/raise_error.rb:14:in `on_complete': GET 89678f7d7f: 403 API rate limit exceeded for 195.88.177.9. (But here's the good news: Authenticated requests get a higher rate limit. Check out the documentation for more details.) (Github::Error::Forbidden)

Then you have to generate this token or wait for 1 hour

License

Github Changelog Generator is released under the MIT License.

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