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Scriv
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Scriv changelog management tool

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Overview
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Scriv is a command-line tool for helping developers maintain useful changelogs.
It manages a directory of changelog fragments. It aggregates them into entries
in a CHANGELOG file.

Getting Started
===============

Scriv writes changelog fragments into a directory called "changelog.d".  Start
by creating this directory.  (By the way, like many aspects of scriv's
operation, you can choose a different name for this directory.)

To make a new changelog fragment, use the ``scriv create`` command.  It will
make a new file with a filename using the current date and time, your GitHub or
Git user name, and your branch name.  Changelog fragments should be committed
along with all the other changes on your branch.

When it is time to release your project, the ``scriv collect`` command
aggregates all the fragments into a new entry in your changelog file.

You can also choose to publish your changelog entries as GitHub releases with
the ``scriv github-release`` command.  It parses the changelog file and
creates or updates GitHub releases to match.  It can be used even with
changelog files that were not created by scriv.

Documentation
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Full documentation is at https://scriv.readthedocs.org.

License
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The code in this repository is licensed under the Apache Software License 2.0
unless otherwise noted.

Please see ``LICENSE.txt`` for details.

How To Contribute
=================

Contributions are very welcome.  Thanks to all the contributors so far:

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| Ned Batchelder
| Abhilash Raj
| Agustín Piqueres
| Flo Kuepper
| James Gerity
| Javier Sagredo
| Kurt McKee
| Matias Guijarro
| Rodrigo Girão Serrão
| Ronny Pfannschmidt

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