akrabat/changelog-generator

Generate Markdown changelogs from your GitHub milestones

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3.0.0 2021-08-12 15:05 UTC

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BSD-2-Clause 26cfe7d5978cd002ea5b6e7cee172ac766f7a446

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Last update: 2024-10-13 15:29:13 UTC

README

This project provides a simple way to create a markdown ordered list of issues and pull requests closed with a given milestone on GitHub.

The script ensures that any special characters that might break the generated links are scrubbed and substituted with the corresponding HTML entities; as such, the script should be generally usable unattended.

This is a fork of phly/changelog-generator for use with more recent versions of PHP and various quality-of-life improvements.

Installation

Use Composer to install dependencies:

$ composer require akrabat/changelog-generator

This will install the script in vendor/bin/changelog_generator.php.

You can also install globally using:

composer global require akrabat/changelog-generator

and ensure that ~/.composer/vendor/bin is on your PATH. The script is then available using changelog_generator.php directly.

Usage

There are two primary ways to use the generator:

  • Use CLI options to pass in configuration
  • Create a configuration file, and pass that to the script

The standard CLI options are:

  • -t or --token, to pass your GitHub API token
  • -u or --user, to pass your GitHub username or organization
  • -r or --repo, to pass your GitHub repository name
  • -m or --milestone, to pass the identifier of the GitHub milestone for which to generate the changelog

As an example:

vendor/bin/changelog_generator.php -t MYgithubAPItoken -u weierophinney -r changelog_generator -m 1 > changelog.md

Alternately, create a configuration file. You can use config/config.php.dist as a template; it simply needs to return an array with the keys "token", "user", "repo", and "milestone". You then pass this to the script:

vendor/bin/changelog_generator.php -c path/to/config.php

You can also mix-and-match options -- for instance, you might place your token in a configuration file, and then pass the other options via CLI.

Additional options

Additional CLI options control the output:

  • -g or --group-labels, to display the result grouped by labels
  • -o or --plain-text-output, to display the milestone titles as plain text, rather than HTML encoded