Questions tagged [changelog]
A changelog is a log or record of changes made to a project.
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What are some good ways to manage a changelog using Git? [closed]
I've been using Git for a while now, and I recently started using it to tag my releases so that I could more easily keep track of changes and be able to see which version each of our clients is ...
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What's new in Hibernate 4?
I just saw that a beta of Hibernate 4 was released. What's new in 4 compared to 3(.6)? I couldn't find this info in the beta announcement, nor when Googling the title of this question.
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How to include git changelog in Jenkins emails?
Is there any way to import the changelog that is generated by Jenkins to the subject of an email (either through the default email, or the email-ext plugin)?
I am new to Jenkins configuration, so I ...
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Git changelog: how to get all changes up to a specific tag?
Is there an easy way or command to get all git commits up to a specific tag to generate an automatic changelog for a project? I always tag my git repos with a version number like v0.1.0 and for ...
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Updating my google play "What's new" section
I am about to release an update for my companies android app. The previous guy who wrote the app has now left, and I was just wondering how I change what appears in the What's New section in google ...
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Changelog generation from Github issues?
Is there a way to automatically generate a change log from Github issues?
Ideally I want to be able to point at a closed milestone and generate either a plain text list of closed issues with their ...
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PostgreSQL how to find any changes in the last n-minutes
I am writing a program that syncs PostgreSQL and MS SQL server databases (and adds some changes in this transition). With multi million records, it takes a long time, and loads server pretty bad with ...
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git: changelog day by day
How to generate changelog of commits groupped by date, in format:
[date today]
- commit message1
- commit message2
- commit message3
...
[date day+3]
- commit message1
- commit message2
- commit ...
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How can I maintain an automatic changelog per module in a monorepo?
I'm working on a project which consists of multiple git repositories. There are multiple microservices, a frontend, some npm-packages and gateway containers, etc.
As I often run into the problem that ...
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Git and changelog guideline
I'm a noob with git and i would like to know the best practice to create tags and generate/mantain a changelog.
Until now, i always created a readme.md and manually indicate (in the section "...
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How to implement a changelog in android?
for my app i want to implement a changelog, but dont know how (which concept).
I want, that the changelog pops up once a time after new version of my app installed.
Sounds easy, but i have no clue. :/...
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TFS2010: Retrieve all changesets associated with a branch (full recursion)
This follows my previous question about TFS 2010 and the possibility to create a changelog.
I was previously using labels to identify a version of the program, but as labels are not fixed points in ...
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Create changelog artifact in TeamCity
Is there a simple way to have TeamCity include a text or html change-log as one of its output artifacts?
Perhaps I need to go down the route of having msbuild or some other process create the change ...
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With Liquibase, is there a difference between using a unique <createIndex> and using <column> with a unique constraint?
Liquibase has two ways to define a column as unique:
When creating the table, using <constraints> on the column:
<createTable tableName="my_table">
<column name="my_column">
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Custom git merge union strategy for a Changelog
We have an ONGOING.md file where each developer adds item when pushing code.
It looks like :
### Added
- item 1
### Changed
- item 2
It happened all the time that lines got overwritten when pulling/...
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Is there a way to use standard-version just to update the change log
I like standard-version as it updates the changelog using git commits but for a project I'm working on versioning is managed by another command - and HAS to stay like this. Is there a way of just ...
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Automatically write changelog to CHANGELOG.md in GitHub
Is there any way to automatically generate change logs from commit messages to a file called CHANGELOG.md in a GitHub repo?
Might be possible using a service hook on a repo?
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Changelog handling in semantic-release?
Using semantic-release in our Github workflows.
They are setup like this:
[
{name: 'main', prerelease: false},
{name: 'staging', prerelease: true},
{name: 'development', prerelease: true}
]
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PHP MySQL SQL parser (INSERT and UPDATE) [closed]
I am looking to parse INSERT and UPDATE MySQL SQL queries in PHP to determine what changes where made from what original data. Now this would be pretty easy to create, but I want to see if there are ...
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Specifying files by absolute path was removed in Liquibase 4.0
I am getting the following liquibase error when I run my Spring Boot application:
Specifying files by absolute path was removed in Liquibase 4.0. Please use a relative path or add '/' to the classpath ...
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Validate format of GitHub "Squash and Merge" commit messages
I want to set up a GitHub project to use conventional-changelog standard version to generate its changelog. We use a squash and merge workflow to merge PRs into our main development branch.
Is there ...
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Tagging commit messages and changesets
I am searching for a solution, to tag changesets in commit messages.
For me a "tag" is something like:
code clean up
user visible change
modifies database structure (ALTER TABLE)
Documentation ...
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svn help to get all history
Summary: I want to know that how can I get all the change log from svn.
I know about SVN LOG URL, but it does not give me detail that what
files were changed in that commit. It just gives me commit ...
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Do you only update the changed fields or all the fields?
I'm wondering if it's worth the server time when updating a record to retrieve the existing record, loop through the fields checking for changes and only putting the changed fields in the update query?...
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Where can I find changelog of JavaScript?
I would like to see list of changes that were made in every version of JavaScript. I would also be interested in what is planned to be added in JavaScript and when a new realease is planned.
Do you ...
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What is the jenkins /changes page?
When a Jenkins jobe builds it comes with a changes page located at https://jenkins.server/jenkins/job/job-name/changes.
I know the purpose is to display SCM / git changes but what exactly is it?
Is ...
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Generate changelog from commit and tag
I'm trying to generate changelog to a project (repo in bitbucket.org), but I can't find an easy solution. We are using this pattern
(<type>(<scope>): <subject>)
to fill the commit ...
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How to have different markdownlint rules for CHANGELOG.md files
In VS Code, I use markdownlint for my markdown files. I like the rules that it imposes except for my CHANGELOG.md file (see keepachangelog.com).
Is there a way to have one set of rules for most of my ...
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How to extend Liquibase to generate change logs with stored procedures, functions and triggers?
Currently Liquibase has some limitations when you try to generate change logs on an existing database. It does not export the following types of objects:
Stored procedures, functions, packages
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Strategy for extracting messages of most useful commits to changelog
The needs for this question is to
have a changelog for managers/customers that:
does include "Let users have additional addresses"
does not include "Fixed the bug where addresses were overwritten ...
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Remove newlines form git commit bodies in git log
I have following aliases in my .gitconfig to automate my tag annotations (using my git tag-release alias):
[alias]
lm = log --pretty=format:'(%h) %s%n%w(72,10,10)%b%w(72,0,0)by %an on %ad%n' --date=...
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When did the file mode in Perl's open become a separate argument?
Once upon a time, you opened files in Perl like so:
open(FH, ">$filename");
At some point, for many good reasons including some very sticky ones involving filenames with leading spaces, this ...
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Why maintain traditional detailed ChangeLog in modern world (with SVN, Mercurial, Git)?
Detailed ChangeLog entry usually tell who, when and what function changed and for why this change done.
And this for every separate function in the source code tree!
As I understand ChangeLog come ...
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EclipseLink JPA Tracking Changes
I try to log any changes of my JPA entities. For this reason each entity inherits from an abstract entity class which has a list of LogEntry objects.
AbstractEntity class:
@Entity
@Inheritance(...
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Formatting the svn log output
I have been generating change logs in subversion using the svn log command. To make it easier to read, I'd like to add a newline after each revision's comments. If the output initially appears like ...
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Emacs: Is there a way to generate a skeleton ChangeLog from diff?
I'd like to partly automate creation of GNU-style ChangeLog entries when working with source code in version control. The add-changelog-entry-other-window works with one file at a time and you have to ...
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Create a listing of changed files/directories/etc. using git between two tags
I need to generate a changelog of sorts between two Tags within a project controlled using git, specifically the android source code. This list should include any files/directories/etc which have been ...
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Generate changelog for a semantically released package
Here is the package I'm working on currently.
This is the first time I'm trying to enforce the conventional changelog format and use semantic release versioning. The releasing itself works fine, I'm ...
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Changelog changelog.groovy not found
I've created new Grails project in IntellijIDEA 11.1.3 and try to run it.
When I open http://localhost:8080/application/dbdoc (accessing default action of controller grails.plugin.databasemigration....
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Emacs: Set fill-column in Change Log Mode
Very specific question that I hope is not too dumb.
(setq-default fill-column 120) sets the width of the buffer fill to 120 columns. Default for me otherwise is 74.
This command, when put in my ....
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How to implement change log with JPA?
I have an entity class manged by with JPA, and I have one entity that needs to be loged changes in its property. Does JPA provides any ways to handle this kind of requirement ?
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NPM ChangeLogging and automatization
Python packages have best practices for documenting public API changes using CHANGES.txt (see an example). There are tools like zest.releaser which do automated package publish and release notes ...
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EclipseLink Audit / History / Track changes
i've tried to implement a way to track data changes and create a history log for my application. Because i'm using EclipseLink it should be easy and possible to get the changes like they write on the ...
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Liquibase with Gradle - silly problem with changeLogFile path
I'm stuck with a silly but annoying problem with implementing Liquibase to my existing project. After a lot of struggling I got it to work when starting the application, it runs through the master ...
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GitHub changelog links to commits
Some projects have a CHANGELOG.md file where each version links to the range of commits that were made for that version. For example, this one. It looks like these links are automatically generated ...
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Automated Changelog using JIRA, GitHub, and Jenkins
My team recently switched to all three technologies in the past several months and have worked hard to get it up and running. Next step is automating our changelogs. We have JIRA set up look for the ...
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How to set up "Git Changelog" in Jenkins?
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Git+Changelog+Plugin
First, I only see what's in my screenshot, can't find the "Print on job summary page" and "Create file" sections. Then I got the error ...
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grails changelog preconditions not doing anything
I am trying to make changes to the database using the changelog. Since I cannot guarantee that the values currently exist for the specific code, but could exist, I need to be able to check for them ...
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Pop-Up Window at inital start up, of android application
I am trying to find a code that will do a popup at the initial start up on an installed app. Much like a changelog that is starting to appear in more and more apps.
I have found some similar codes, ...
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