changelog-tool

A tool for modifying the "standard pony" changelogs.

Status

Production ready.

Installation

Ponyup

You can use ponyup, our toolchain multiplexer, to download nighly builds, if you're using Linux. Other platforms require building from source.

Linux:

ponyup update changelog-tool nightly

Building From Source

You will need ponyc in your PATH.

git clone https://github.com/ponylang/changelog-tool
cd changelog-tool
make
sudo make install

Create a Changelog

changelog-tool new

Verify a Changelog

changelog-tool verify

CHANGELOG.md is a valid changelog.

Print a single release changelog

changelog-tool get 0.2.2

## [0.2.2] - 2018-01-16

### Added

- Many prior version. This was added as first entry in CHANGELOG when it was added to this project.

Add an unreleased section

changelog-tool unreleased -e

Add an entry to an unreleased section

changelog-tool add fixed 'We fixed some bad issues' -e
changelog-tool add added 'We just added some new cool stuff' -e
changelog-tool add changed 'And changed things a bit' -e

Prepare a Changelog for a Release

changelog-tool release 0.13.1
# The changelog-tool release command prints the new changelog to standard output
# -e should be used to modify the changelog file.

Example CHANGELOG.md (before):

# Change Log

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/) and [Keep a CHANGELOG](http://keepachangelog.com/).

## [unreleased] - unreleased

### Fixed



### Added

- We are only adding things on this release

### Changed

Example CHANGELOG.md (after):

# Change Log

All notable changes to the Pony compiler and standard library will be documented in this file. This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/) and [Keep a CHANGELOG](http://keepachangelog.com/).

## [0.13.1] - 2017-04-14

### Added

- We are only adding things on this release

Note that a new unreleased area has been added to the top of the changelog and only the Added section of the previous unreleased area has been included in the 0.13.1 release since the other two sections had no entries.