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Show HN: Devlog, generate development blog posts from Git commit messages

by tcsenpai on 8/30/24, 2:20 PM with 3 comments

Devlog is a powerful tool that automatically generates (b)log posts from your Git commit history, providing a natural language summary of your development progress.

It uses ollama to generate the blog posts locally so it never sends your data to third-party servers.

  • by lottamus on 8/31/24, 5:32 PM

    You should dogfood the tool on it’s git repo to showcase as an example

  • by karmakaze on 8/30/24, 10:54 PM

    I don't know why anyone would want a natural language description of user visible changes in a release.

    The convention that worked where I worked was to praise the first line of such changes prefxed with "uv:" which would become bullet points for the changelog. Rarely would any need to be rewritten except for fixing the odd typo or punctuation.