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> I don't quite understand the use case for this sort of app (generating a nice changelog from a well structured commit history.) In my experience if your team
by lloydatkinson 2y ago
> I don't quite understand the use case for this sort of app (generating a nice changelog from a well structured commit history.) In my experience if your team is disciplined enough to use something like Conventional Commit rigorously you don't actually need an app.
> Just copying the commit descriptions into a doc, even in a nicer format, feels like theatre to me. You aren't gaining anything. Non-technical users won't benefit from it and everyone else can learn 'git log'.
> I really hope I'm missing something.
Yes, this seems to be cynical for the sake of cynicism. The point of tools like this is that you do in fact want this document, because no one will be copy pasting messages from git log to put in the changlog files. And if they are, they would appreciate a tool to do it for them.
Additionally, changelogs are part of releases and will show up in GitHub releases, package managers, etc.