Auto-add all commits to release notes

[furlongm]

Auto-adding all commits since the previous release to the release notes would be a nice option.

e.g. something like the body of this release:

https://github.com/bloomberg/chef-bcpc/releases/tag/7.1.20

[jcfr]

Neat idea.

That said, since the body of the release can be specified, would it work to provide an example of bash script allowing to do this ?

This would avoid adding complexity to the existing API

[furlongm]

Possibly. Currently using something along the lines of

$ last_release=1.5.8-12-g7d04474
$ git log --merges --format='%b | %s' ${last_release}... | sed -n -e 's/^\(.*\)|\(.*Merge pull request.*\)\(#[0-9]*\).*$/\3 - \1/p' -e '/^ /d' 
#57 - support for parameterized github api url

Which actually adds all PRs since previous release (probably a better default).