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Getting release notes from Git logs
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# drop this into your ./.gitconfig file
# usage
# $ git today
# $ git yesterday
# $ git since 18-11-01
#
# will display a list of formatted commits you can lift to use for release notes
[alias]
today = log --since=1am --pretty=format:"%C(blue)-\\ %s"
yesterday = log --since=yesterday --pretty=format:"%C(blue)-\\ %s"
since = "!f() { git log --since="$1" --pretty=format:\"%C(blue)- %s\"; }; f"
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First two were original aliases I created and the "since" one was added to enable by date -- you can also do:

$ git since yesterday
$ git since today

so you could remove the today and yesterday aliases completely.

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