Semantic versioning

Conventional commits

• Website
  • Example commit history
• standard-version Automate versioning and CHANGELOG generation
• conventional-commits-detector
• Commitizen: Commit helper which lets you choose between standard tags

Linting

• commitlint

Changelog management

• vandamme: Changelogs Convention
• conventional-changelog
• conventional-changelog-cli
• standard-changelog/: An opinionated approach to CHANGELOG generation using angular commit conventions.

keepachangelog

• Website
• GitHub
• Not based on Conventional commits
• keepachangelog tools
• Denote API breaking changes

Automatic versioning / releasing

• https://github.com/semantic-release/semantic-release: Fully automated version management and package publishing
• semantic-pull-requests: Let the robots take care of the semantic versioning

Tools

• pm: Project Metadata Management (Stale)
• changelogger (PHP)

using git log

see also What are some good ways to manage a changelog using Git?

git log --oneline --decorate --no-merges 0.5.0..HEAD | cut -d' ' -f2- | sed 's/^/* /'

old:

git log --pretty=%s --first-parent  0.2.2..HEAD | sed 's/^/* /g'