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Automated changelog generation (fhoekstra.eu)
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When publishing a package for use by programmers, automated changelog generation is very beneficial. In this blog post, I explore how to do it in a simple way that works everywhere.

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[-] silverpill@mitra.social 7 points 2 weeks ago

@fhoekstra Such tools are worse than useless. Every time I see an automated changelog it's mix of dependabot commits, "fix CI" and other meaningless messages.

Not having a changelog is better, because then you just go straight to a commit history and don't waste your time trying to parse machine-generated slop.

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