gophernicus/git2changelog

#!/bin/sh

##
## Generate ChangeLog from git log
##

PREVIOUS=
IFS=\;

echo "[ Automatically generated from git log ]"

git log --pretty=tformat:"%ad  %an  <%ae>;%s" --date=short | \
while read -r AUTHOR COMMENT; do
	[ "$AUTHOR" != "$PREVIOUS" ] && printf "\n$AUTHOR\n\n"
	printf "\t* %s\n" "$COMMENT"
	PREVIOUS="$AUTHOR"
done

echo
echo