Generate a change log automatically with git

gistfile1.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Generate a changelog between the v1 and v2 tags

# See the "pretty formats" section of the git manual if you want to customize the output: https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-log.html

git log --no-merges --format="%an: %s" v1..v2

sample output

Blake Gardner: Fixed broken composer.json
Blake Gardner: Added a list of keywords to the composer.json
Blake Gardner: Updated the example code in the README file
Blake Gardner: Ignore the vendor folder and composer.lock
Blake Gardner: Added PHP-CS to the require-dev section of the composer.json file
Blake Gardner: Updated package name
Blake Gardner: Updated composer.json file with minimum PHP version, license, and PSR-0 autoloader information
Blake Gardner: Added composer.json generated by the composer init command
Blake Gardner: Updated example PHP file to reflect the new class name, name space, and method names
Blake Gardner: Broke the valid MAC address characters into two lines
Blake Gardner: Fixed whitespace issues
Blake Gardner: Lowercased null values
Blake Gardner: Lowercased all true booleans
Blake Gardner: Lowercased all false booleans
Blake Gardner: Converted class, and methods to use Allman style braces
Blake Gardner: Converted all tabs to spaces
Blake Gardner: Camel cased all of the method names to conform to the PSR-1 standard
Blake Gardner: Put the class into a vendor level name space and re-named the class to match the file name
Blake Gardner: Moved the class file to match the directory structure expected by PSR-0