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p/changelog-generator-from-gitTurn your Git commits into a beautiful changelog for free
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Git2Log - Turn your Git commits into a beautiful changelog for free

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This free tool takes your git commits and transforms them into a beautiful, customer friendly changelog. Keep your users informed about the latest updates and improvements effortlessly. Make a changelog in minutes, not weeks 🚀

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Ruben
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Hi Product Hunt Community, I’m Ruben, the founder. I’m excited about our launch on Product Hunt today and ready to share this free tool with you! Creating changelogs is a necessary task for keeping my users informed about the latest updates and improvements. However, I'm not a big fan of spending time on marketing tasks. So, I had an idea: what if my git commits could automatically generate changelogs? It turns out, this works incredibly well! This not only saves me time but also ensures my users always have access to the latest information in an organized and professional format. This is a free tool that I made as a fun side project, but I think the results are amazing. Try it out and let me know what you think!
Cassandra
@ruben_buijs1 As a product manager, I can really feel how this affects customers' trust in us. It also provides them with a stable and instantaneous understanding of our product.
Joseph Abraham
@ruben_buijs1 Huge congratulations on the launch! Wishing you all the success in the world. What feedback have you received so far?
Ruben
Maker
@kjosephabraham Thanks Joseph. Not a crazy lot, you can view all feedback received here: https://app.productlift.dev/t/gi...
Marcin Pastuszek
This is something that every SaaS founder should invest in! ProductLift is amazing. We have been using it for Seodity for more than a year, and our users love it. To satisfy your customers more, you should definitely use ProductLift. And now.... with Git2Log, we will save a lot of time informing Seodity's users about updates. Ruben, this is a game-changer! Thank you!
Ruben
Maker
@marcin_pastuszek Thanks Marcin. Glad I can help speed up your update process :)
Kyrylo Silin
Automating changelog creation from git commits is clever. It looks like a great time-saver for developers. Does Git2Log have any features to customize or edit the generated changelog before finalizing? Congratulations on launching Git2Log, Ruben!
Ruben
Maker
@kyrylosilin Thanks! It is also interesting to see it works quite well. Good point, not that many yet apart from selecting the framework. What kind of customization would you like to see?
Ruben
Maker
@kyrylosilin Good idea, I have added it to the Git2Log vote list here: https://app.productlift.dev/p/ba... You can vote on the item to automatically keep up to date :)
Kehui Guo
As a designer, I always keep a changelog for documentation purposes so my dev team and product team are aware of each design updates. This seem to be super useful for developers! Good luck!
Ruben
Maker
@kehui_guo Thanks! I agree it doesn't work well for non-commits, like designs.
Wilson Ler
This is beautifully simple and easy to use. Love it 👍 could definitely use something like this for a more native changelog section to our landing page.
Ruben
Maker
@ler_ws Great to hear, Wilson! Let me know how it goes :)
Kritin Vongthongsri
🔌 Plugged in
So helpful for open-source projects!
Ruben
Maker
@kritinvong Great to hear Kritin, glad you like it. Let me know if you have any feedback :)
Saif Hassan
I once thought about doing this. Glad that you guys did. Looks fun! Congrats on the launch! 🎉
Roman Martirosyan
Congrats on the launch! I'm curious about how customizable the changelog format is and if it supports different styling options to match a project's branding.
Ruben
Maker
@r_martirosyan Thanks, Roman! The idea is that the output follows the framework you already use (e.g., Tailwind). However, if you want more customization, you can import the changelog items as a CSV into a tool like ProductLift (https://www.productlift.dev/chan...). This allows for extensive customization, including branding colors and additional (S)CSS changes.
siyam sahin
Git2Log is a lifesaver for developers! Automating the changelog generation from Git commits saves so much time and effort. This tool is a must-have for any development team. Great job!
Ruben
Maker
@siyam_sahin Thanks a lot Siyam, glad you like it. Any suggestions to improve it further?
Olivier van den Hoogen
Very nice @ruben_buijs1 !! No more reason for us not to display a changelog :)
Pachi Parra
I love the idea of customer friendly changelog! Will try this out for sure
Ruben
Maker
@pachi_codes Cool. Let me know how it goes :)
Khurram Mahmood
This looks great and very useful. We have open source repos that we would love to use it for. I tried with some commit log and it generated a really nice change log. However, when I click on 'Get Started for Free" and signup, I see a lot of different options but can't find any place where I could just point to my git repo and it starts generating logs. Looks like it's more about selling other features than the changelog.
Ruben
Maker
@khurram_mahmood1 Awesome, Khurram! I should have sent you an (automated) email. Let's touch base over email and I am happy to get this setup for you :)
Dmytro Krasun
😹 LOL
It would force me to write great commit messages! Good luck!
Ruben
Maker
@dmytro_krasun Not necessarily, it picks up quite a bit from short messages. But off course if you write "update 1" and "fix" it will not understand it :)
Cerca Hedgecock
Perfect for keeping users informed about updates.
Ruben
Maker
@cerca_hedgecock Exactly! Let me know if you have any suggestions :)
Rushi
Love it. Would be cool if there was sign in with Github kinda feature to auto publish changelog.
Rahul S
Log has all fields... Good work
horus he
This is indeed a great product, in the site can be pasted into the git commit history to generate logs for display, convenient and efficient. However, as a front-end developer, there is a small suggestion, if you can provide a npm package to allow developers to automate the update log output every time in the CD, it would be even better.
YC J
Any bitbucket integration coming soon?