Generating a Change Log

git log --pretty=format:"%s" -s --reverse

- Initial Commit
- Adding Wiki
- Set up CI with Azure Pipelines
- Update azure-pipelines.yml for Azure Pipelines
- adding push
- trying git push
- testing build
- changing yml
- changing a few things
- will it work
- Update release notes in wiki folder

git log --pretty=format:"%s - %an, %ar" --reverse

Initial Commit - Alice, 2 years ago
Adding Wiki - Bob, 2 years ago
Set up CI with Azure Pipelines - Carol, 1 year ago
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# azure-pipelines.yml (excerpt)
- task: XplatGenerateReleaseNotes@4
  inputs:
    checkForManuallyLinkedWI: False
    wiqlFromFile: 'WorkItems'

- task: CopyReleaseNotes@2
  displayName: 'Copy Release Notes to Wiki Folder'
  inputs:
    SourceFolder: '$(Build.Repository.LocalPath)'
    Contents: 'releasenotes_$(Build.BuildId).md'
    TargetFolder: '$(Build.Repository.LocalPath)/wiki'
    CleanTargetFolder: true
    OverWrite: true

- script: |
    del "$(Build.Repository.LocalPath)\releasenotes_$(Build.BuildId).md"
  displayName: 'Delete Original Release Notes File'

- task: CmdLine@2
  displayName: 'Commit Release Notes to Wiki Folder'
  inputs:
    script: |
      git checkout master
      git pull
      git config --global user.email "jeremy@kodekloud.com"
      git config --global user.name "Jeremy Morgan"
      git remote add origin https://jeremy0665@dev.azure.com/jeremy0665/TestWeb/_git/TestWeb
      git add wiki/releasenotes_$(Build.BuildId).md
      git commit -m "[skip ci] Update release notes for $(Build.BuildId) in wiki folder"
      git push origin HEAD:master

# azure-pipelines.yml (extended excerpt)
- task: PowerShell@2
  displayName: 'Generate CHANGELOG.md via Git'
  inputs:
    targetType: 'inline'
    script: |
      # Generate changelog with hash, subject, author, and relative date
      git log --pretty=format:"%h - %s (%an, %ar)" --reverse |
        ForEach-Object { Add-Content -Path CHANGELOG.md -Value $_ }

- task: CopyFiles@2
  displayName: 'Copy Changelog to Wiki Folder'
  inputs:
    SourceFolder: '$(Build.Repository.LocalPath)'
    Contents: 'CHANGELOG.md'
    TargetFolder: '$(Build.Repository.LocalPath)/wiki'
    CleanTargetFolder: true
    OverWrite: true

- task: CmdLine@2
  displayName: 'Commit Changelog to Wiki'
  inputs:
    script: |
      git checkout master
      git pull
      git config --global user.email "jeremy@kodekloud.com"
      git config --global user.name "Jeremy Morgan"
      git add wiki/CHANGELOG.md
      git commit -m "[skip ci] Update CHANGELOG.md for $(Build.BuildId)"
      git push origin HEAD:master

Starting: Copy Changelog to Wiki Folder
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Task          : Copy files
Description   : Copy files from a source folder to a target folder using patterns matching file paths (not folder paths)
Version       : 2.238.0
Author        : Microsoft Corporation
Help          : https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/utility/copy-files
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found 1 files
Cleaning target folder: C:\agent\_work\5\wiki
Copying C:\agent\_work\5\CHANGELOG.md to C:\agent\_work\5\wiki\CHANGELOG.md
Finishing: Copy Changelog to Wiki Folder