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I would like to extract Git comments of a specific application branch into a formatted release notes for a specific application version.

I can extract it to a text file or copy the revision history from VS2017 to Excel, but it requires some additional cleaning and filtering.

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  • What exactly do you mean by "cleaning and filtering"? Can you show an example? – mkrieger1 Dec 12 '18 at 21:55
  • By "git comments" do you mean `git log` messages? Can you give an example of the comments you have and the release notes you'd like to see? – Schwern Dec 12 '18 at 22:00
  • For instance, Merge messages I want to avoid(filtering). But message about new feature developed, I want to keep. – Mark Shteinberg Dec 13 '18 at 01:32

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If you want to generate release notes from git log messages, there's any number of tools available to do that. git-release-notes for example.

Most require that the logs are written in a certain format for the result to make any sense. You can rewrite your logs with the reword feature of an interactive rebase.

Schwern
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