Keep a changelog

Lightning talk about the changelog hg/git extensions at #pyunconf Hamburg

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1. Keep a changelog! Wolfgang Schnerring @wosc, pyunconf Hamburg 2015
3. Version (Date) User-visible changes
4. Commit message Changelog Changelog Commit message
5. Apply latest UX insights to Foobar widget More details about the motivation and contents of the change Subject (Think, “this change will...”) Body Commit message format
6. It looks like you're typing the works of Shakespeare. Did you know there were monkeys who can do that?
9. [extensions] hgchangelog = /path/to/hgchangelog.py Mercurial 1. Download from https://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/hgchangelog 2. Add to ~/.hgrc $ mkdir -p ~/.git-templates/hooks $ cp preparechangelog.py ~/.git-templates/hooks/prepare-commit-msg $ chmod +x ~/.git-templates/hooks/prepare-commit-msg $ git config --global init.templatedir '~/.git-templates' Git 1. Download from https://github.com/wosc/git-commitchangelog 2. Run
10. Keep a changelog!