stentor

noun

1. (in the Iliad) a Greek herald with a loud voice.
2. (lowercase) a person having a very loud or powerful voice.
3. (lowercase) a trumpet-shaped, ciliate protozoan of the genus Stentor.

stentor is a CLI for generating a change log or release notes from a set of fragment files and templates. It was inspired by towncrier and git-chlog.

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Installation

Binary

Download a pre-built binary for your OS and Architecture from the releases page.

Go

You can also build stentor directly using go install:

go install github.com/wfscheper/stentor/cmd/stentor@latest

Usage

Setup

This example assumes that there is already a v0.1.0 tag.

1. Create a .stentor.d directory in your git repository.

   mkdir .stentor.d
   

   This is where your fragments, configuration, and templates will go.

2. Create a minimal stentor config file.

   $ cat >.stentor.d/stentor.toml << EOF
   [stentor]
   repository = "https://github.com/myname/myrepo"
   EOF
   

3. Create some fragment files.

   $ cat >.stentor.d/1.feature.md << EOF
   Added the foo feature.
   
   The foo feature is full of foos,
   and is awesome.
   EOF
   $ cat >.stentor.d/2.fix.md << EOF
   Fixed parsing foos that contain special characters
   
   `fooer` no longer chokes when parsing a foo with the special characters `!@#$%`.
   EOF
   

4. Run stentor to see the output it would add to CHANGELOG.md.

   $ stentor v0.2.0 v0.1.0
   ## [v0.2.0] - 2006-01-02
   
   ### Features
   
   - Added the foo feature
   
     The foo feature is full of foos, and is awesome.
     [#1](https://github.com/myname/myrepo/issues/1)
   
   
   ### Bug fixes
   
   - Fixed parsing foos that contain special characters
   
     `fooer` no longer chokes when parsing a foo with the special characters `!@#$%`.
     [#2](https://github.com/myname/myrepo/issues/2)
   
   [v0.2.0]: https://github.com/myname/myrepo/compare/v0.1.0...v0.2.0
   
   
   ---
   
   $ git add .stentor.d/
   $ git commit -m "Setup stentor to generate CHANGELOG.md"
   

5. Use the -release flag to consume the fragments and update the news file.

   Note: If a CHANGELOG.md does not exist already, one will be created.

   $ stentor -release v0.2.0 v0.1.0
   $ git status
   On branch master
   Changes not staged for commit:
     (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
     (use "git restore <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
          modified:   CHANGELOG.md
          deleted:    .stentor.d/1.feature.md
          deleted:    .stentor.d/2.fix.md
   
   no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")