A shell script for generate CHANGELOG from git log

changelog.sh

#!/bin/bash

if [ "$1" == "" ]; then
  INITIAL=`git rev-list HEAD | tail -n 1`
else
  INITIAL="$1"
fi

git log "$INITIAL"...HEAD --pretty=format:"- [%h](`git remote -v | grep fetch | head -1 | cut -f 2 | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | sed -e 's/git@/https:\/\//' -e's/\.git$//' | sed -E 's/(\/\/[^:]*):/\1\//'`/commit/%H) %s"

Usage

# this will use initial commit if you do not give any arg
$ changelog

# this will use given commit
$ changelog 1582477

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Installation

Copy and paste this script to /usr/bin/changelog or another location, and then make it executable by sudo chmod u+x /path/of/the/changelog

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