Agree with the premise of the article: changelogs—or rather, news files—are not the commit history. Describing the changes between releases at a high level is super important but also a skill that’s hard to acquire.
I thought I had written about this way back as well, but what I found instead is a post from 2005 that’s tangentially related. I remember that some projects back in the day tried to replicate the equivalent of git log in their ChangeLog file… by hand!
I thought I had written about this way back as well, but what I found instead is a post from 2005 that’s tangentially related. I remember that some projects back in the day tried to replicate the equivalent of git log in their ChangeLog file… by hand!
Here is the post: https://jmmv.dev/2005/08/manual-changelogs-thing-of-past.htm... — and pardon the English and its structure. Not as nice as I’d like it to be, but that was written 17 years ago!