glab(1)

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okay so this is the man page for glab-changelog-generate, straight out of the glab manual (that's the glab(1) manual name, if you were wondering 🎀). it generates a changelog for the current project and honestly it's giving "let the CLI do the boring part" energy. let's go ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

glab-changelog-generate — Generate a changelog for the current project. periodt 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

glab changelog generate [flags]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically: this command generates a changelog from the commits in your project's Git repository. iconic. 🔥

if you do not pass --version, glab figures out the version by running git describe against your local tags. no cap, it just asks your tags. 👑

by default, GitLab reads the changelog configuration from .gitlab/changelog_config.yml in the project. want a different file? pass --config-file. easy. 🫶

want to limit the range of commits? that's what --from and --to are for. heads up though: glab excludes the --from commit from the range and includes the --to commit. and --to defaults to HEAD of the project's default branch, in case you were gonna ask. 😌

💖 OPTIONS 💖

• --config-file="" — path to the changelog configuration file in the project's Git repository. defaults to .gitlab/changelog_config.yml. lowkey the most "keep your config tidy" option ever 🎀
• --date="" — date and time of the release, in ISO 8601 format (2016-03-11T03:45:40Z). defaults to the current time. ⏰
• --from="" — start of the range of commits to use when generating the changelog, as a SHA. this commit is not included in the range. 🙈
• --to="" — end of the range of commits to use when generating the changelog, as a SHA. this commit is included in the range. defaults to the HEAD of the project's default branch. 🏁
• --trailer="" — the Git trailer to use to include commits. defaults to 'Changelog'. main character trailer fr fr 🎬
• -v, --version="" — version to generate the changelog for. must follow semantic versioning. defaults to the version detected by git describe. semver girlies rise 💜

🧚 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 🧚

• -h, --help[=false] — show help for this command. when in doubt, -h it out 🔍

🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

# Generate a changelog for the version detected by 'git describe'
glab changelog generate

# Generate a changelog for a specific version
glab changelog generate --version 1.2.0

# Generate a changelog for commits between two SHAs
glab changelog generate --from abc123 --to def456

look at that. three little examples, all slaying in their own way ✨

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• glab-changelog(1) — go say hi to the parent command, iykyk 🫶

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ok that's the whole page, nothing skipped, every flag accounted for 💀 don't come for me, come for your changelog 🍓

and that's a wrap bestie — this page was auto generated by spf13/cobra, dated Nov 2026, living its little life as part of the glab(1) manual. mwah 💋🌸