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Automatically generate a changelog using AI

Project description

GPTChangelog

Automatically generate detailed, well-structured changelogs from your git commit history using OpenAI's GPT models.

Features

  • 🤖 AI-powered changelog generation from git commit messages
  • 🔄 Automatic semantic versioning determination
  • 🏷️ Support for conventional commits
  • ✨ Beautiful formatting with Markdown
  • 🧠 Smart categorization of changes
  • 🖋️ Interactive editing mode
  • 📋 Customizable templates
  • 🛠️ Project-specific or global configuration

Installation

pip install gptchangelog

Quick Start

  1. Initialize the configuration (only needed once):
gptchangelog config init
  1. Generate a changelog from your latest tag:
gptchangelog generate

The tool will:

  • Fetch commit messages since your latest tag
  • Process and categorize them using OpenAI
  • Determine the next version number based on semantic versioning
  • Generate a well-structured changelog
  • Prepend it to your CHANGELOG.md file

Command Line Usage

gptchangelog generate [OPTIONS]

Options

  • --since <ref>: Starting point (commit hash, tag, or reference)
  • --to <ref>: Ending point (commit hash, tag, or reference, defaults to HEAD)
  • --output <file>, -o <file>: Output file (defaults to CHANGELOG.md)
  • --current-version <version>: Override the current version
  • --dry-run: Generate changelog but don't save it
  • --interactive, -i: Review and edit before saving

Examples

Generate changelog since the latest tag:

gptchangelog generate

Generate changelog between two specific tags:

gptchangelog generate --since v1.0.0 --to v2.0.0

Generate changelog with interactive editing:

gptchangelog generate -i

Configuration

GPTChangelog supports both global and project-specific configuration:

  • Global: Stored in ~/.config/gptchangelog/config.ini
  • Project: Stored in ./.gptchangelog/config.ini

Managing Configuration

Show current configuration:

gptchangelog config show

Initialize configuration:

gptchangelog config init

Configuration Options

  • api_key: Your OpenAI API key
  • model: The OpenAI model to use (default: gpt-4o)
  • max_context_tokens: Maximum tokens to use in each API call (default: 80000)

Integrating with CI/CD

You can integrate GPTChangelog into your CI/CD pipeline to automatically generate changelogs for new releases:

# Example GitHub Actions workflow
name: Generate Changelog

on:
  push:
    tags:
      - 'v*'

jobs:
  changelog:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0  # Important to fetch all history

      - name: Set up Python
        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
        with:
          python-version: '3.10'

      - name: Install dependencies
        run: |
          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
          pip install gptchangelog

      - name: Generate changelog
        run: |
          echo "OPENAI_API_KEY=${{ secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}" > .env
          gptchangelog generate --since $(git describe --tags --abbrev=0 --match "v*" HEAD^) --to ${{ github.ref_name }}

License

MIT

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

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