Ask HN: How do you generate changelogs for repositories?

[imjacobclark]

How do you generate changelogs in git repos? GitHub has a really good 'releases' feature that builds on tagging, but how do you create your changelog when you may have hundreds of commits where the messages are not all that relevant?

[svisser]

The changelog should be a document written by humans for humans.

So you manually maintain the changelog while working on fixes / features and you add any remaining notes just prior to each release.

[ddorian43]

Using https://pypi.python.org/pypi/gitchangelog