Keep A Changelog Laravel Package
phly/keep-a-changelog
Generates and maintains a Keep a Changelog–style CHANGELOG.md for PHP projects. Helps you create standardized release notes, add entries, and manage version sections consistently, making it easier to track changes and publish clear, human-readable changelogs.
keep-a-changelog
This project provides tooling support for working with Keep A Changelog.
Installation
Local install via Composer
Run the following to install this library:
$ composer require phly/keep-a-changelog
Global install via Composer
Alternately, install globally, for use with any repository:
$ composer global require phly/keep-a-changelog
If you install globally, ensure you add global composer vendor binaries
directory to your $PATH environment variable. You can get its location with
following command:
$ composer global config bin-dir --absolute
You can add the following line to your shell profile to auto-add it to your PATH:
export PATH=$(composer global config bin-dir --absolute):$PATH
Once setup this way, you can call keep-a-changelog instead of
./vendor/bin/keep-a-changelog.
PHAR file
Since version 2.3.0, we have offered standalone PHAR binaries. These are available under the downloads section for each release. To retrieve the latest, you can always use the following url:
Make the file executable (e.g., chmod 755 keep-a-changelog.phar), place it in
your $PATH, and, optionally, remove the .phar suffix
At the time of writing, the PHAR distribution is not yet capable of self-updating or checking for updates.
Usage
Invocation will be via one of the following:
- If you have installed via Composer within your project:
./vendor/bin/keep-a-changelog - If you have installed globally via Composer, and have added the Composer
script path to your
$PATH:keep-a-changelog. - If you have downloaded the PHAR file and put it in your
$PATH: eitherkeep-a-changelog.pharor, if you removed the.pharfile extension,keep-a-changelog.
From here forward, we will use keep-a-changelog to invoke the command;
substitute the appropriate command invocation based on your install.
You may get a list of commands by running:
$ keep-a-changelog
From there, you can get help for individual commands using:
$ keep-a-changelog help <command>
For more information, please visit the documentation.
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