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tool**\n\n[![npm](https://nodei.co/npm/changelog-maker.png?downloads=true\u0026downloadRank=true)](https://nodei.co/npm/changelog-maker/)\n[![npm](https://nodei.co/npm-dl/changelog-maker.png?months=6\u0026height=3)](https://nodei.co/npm/changelog-maker/)\n\n## Eh?\n\n**changelog-maker** is a formalisation of the [Node.js](https://github.com/nodejs/node) CHANGELOG.md entry process but flexible enough to be used on other repositories.\n\n**changelog-maker** will look at the git log of the current directory, pulling entries since the last tag. Commits with just a version number in the summary are removed, as are commits prior to, and including summaries that say `working on \u003cversion\u003e` (this is an io.js / Node ism).\n\nAfter collecting the list of commits, any that have `PR-URL: \u003curl\u003e` in them are looked up on GitHub and the labels of the pull request are collected, specifically looking for labels that start with `semver` (the assumption is that `semver-minor`, `semver-major` labels are used to indicate non-patch version bumps).\n\nFinally, the list is formatted as Markdown and printed to stdout.\n\nEach commit will come out something like this (on one line):\n\n```markdown\n* [[`20f8e7f17a`](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/commit/20f8e7f17a)] -\n  **test**: remove flaky test functionality (Rod Vagg)\n  [#812](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/812)\n```\n\nNote:\n\n* When running `changelog-maker` on the command-line, the default GitHub repo is computed from the `package.json` that exists on `cwd`, otherwise fallback to `nodejs/node`, you can change this by supplying the user/org as the first argument and project as the second. e.g `changelog-maker joyent node`.\n* Commit links will go to the assumed repo (default: nodejs/node)\n* If a commit summary starts with a word, followed by a `:`, this is treated as a special label and rendered in bold\n* Commits that have `semver*` labels on the pull request referred to in their `PR-URL` have those labels printed out at the start of the summary, in bold, upper cased.\n* Pull request URLs come from the `PR-URL` data, if it matches the assumed repo (default: nodejs/node) then just a `#` followed by the number, if another repo then a full `user/project#number`.\n\nWhen printing to a console some special behaviours are invoked:\n\n* Commits with a summary that starts with `doc:` are rendered in grey\n* Commits that have a `semver*` label on the pull request referred to in their `PR-URL` are rendered in bold green\n\n## Install\n\n```shell\nnpm i changelog-maker -g\n```\n\n## Usage\n\n**`changelog-maker [--plaintext|p] [--markdown|md] [--sha] [--group|-g] [--reverse] [--find-matching-prs] [--commit-url=\u003curl/with/{ref}\u003e] [--start-ref=\u003cref\u003e] [--end-ref=\u003cref\u003e] [github-user[, github-project]]`**\n\n`github-user` and `github-project` should point to the GitHub repository that can be used to find the `PR-URL` data if just an issue number is provided and will also impact how the PR-URL issue numbers are displayed\n\n* `--format`:          dictates what formatting the output will have. Possible options are: `simple`, `markdown`, `plaintext`, `messageonly` and `sha`. The default is to print a `simple` output suitable for stdout.\n  - `simple`:            don't print full markdown output, good for console printing without the additional fluff.\n  - `sha`:               print only the 10-character truncated commit hashes.\n  - `plaintext`:         a very simple form, without commit details, implies `--group`.\n  - `markdown`:          a Markdown formatted from, with links and proper escaping.\n  - `messageonly`:       displays the commit message only, implies `--group`\n* `--sha`:             same as `--format=sha`.\n* `--plaintext`:       same as `--format=plaintext`.\n* `--markdown`:        same as `--format=markdown`.\n* `--messageonly`:     same as `--format=messageonly`.\n* `--group`:           reorder commits so that they are listed in groups where the `xyz:` prefix of the commit message defines the group. 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The `\u003cref\u003e` can be anything commit-ish including a commit sha, tag, branch name.\n* `--filter-release`:  exclude Node-style release commits from the list. e.g. \"Working on v1.0.0\" or \"2015-10-21 Version 2.0.0\" and also \"npm version X\" style commits containing _only_ an `x.y.z` semver designator.\n* `--find-matching-prs`: use the GitHub API to find the pull requests that match commits that don't have the `PR-URL` metadata in their message text. Without metadata, it may be necessary to also pass the org/user and repo name on the commandline (as the `github-user` and `github-project` arguments as demonstrated above, it may also be necessary to use `--find-matching-prs=true` in this case).\n* `--quiet` or `-q`:   do not print to `process.stdout`\n* `--all` or `-a`:     process all commits since beginning, instead of last tag.\n* `--help` or `-h`:    show usage and help.\n\n## Development\n\nTests require GitHub authentication in order to fetch pull request metadata. 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