Update Maven's changes.xml automatically from git commit messages

Question

Is there a Maven plugin that generates the changes.xml file for the changes plugin (http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-changes-plugin/index.html) automatically using the information provided by the Git commits?

This git log

commit af2ce13dc277d862ffddf4c03c809b73587188e3
Author: Stefan Birkner <mail@stefan-birkner.de>
Date:   Tue Feb 11 00:13:53 2014 +0100

    [maven-release-plugin] prepare release system-rules-1.5.0

commit e78934311d68a0fb081d7a46e313952e21bd93f8
Author: Stefan Birkner <mail@stefan-birkner.de>
Date:   Wed Feb 5 00:10:25 2014 +0100

    Fix wrong method names in class' Javadoc.


commit 42c054881fff69f682d7f3f6ecee51974f515d80
Author: Stefan Birkner <mail@stefan-birkner.de>
Date:   Wed Sep 11 10:26:23 2013 +0200

    [maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development iteration

should be used to create this changes.xml section:

<release version="1.5.0" date="1024-02-11">
  <action dev="Stefan Birkner" type="fix" date="2014-02-05">
    Fix wrong method names in class' Javadoc.
  </action>
</release>

You don't use any *issue tracker* ? Like GitHub's issue tracker, Jira, Trac, etc. It would be simpler. — Guillaume Husta, May 09 '14 at 15:00
Or you may try to get help with *git help log*. There are options to filter with *--grep* and apply patterns... — Guillaume Husta, May 09 '14 at 15:05
I'm looking for library/plugin that is doing this. Otherwise I write a plugin by myself. But I won't repeat work that is already done by someone else. — Stefan Birkner, May 09 '14 at 15:54
@StefanBirkner, did you resolve that one? how? I have the same issue. — Vassilis Blazos, Jun 20 '16 at 10:07
I didn't. I think the best solution is to write or extend a Maven plugin. — Stefan Birkner, Jun 21 '16 at 10:51

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 25 '15 at 16:15

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The maven-gitlog-plugin plugin generates a changelog (not exactly generates your changes.xml file).

Also the official maven changes plugin has now support for github. See configuring github report.

answered Oct 25 '15 at 16:15

dadoonet

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 21 '18 at 18:35

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It can be done with Git Changelog Maven Plugin. There are a bunch of examples in the example pom.xml.

answered May 21 '18 at 18:35

Tomas Bjerre

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Update Maven's changes.xml automatically from git commit messages

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