Apache Maven Cookbook

Generating changelogs for a site

Now that we have seen the Maven SCM plugin in action, we can see how we can use this feature to generate a log of project changes as part of the site report.

How to do it...

1. Open the Maven project project-with-documentation.
2. Add the following entry in the reporting section:

         <plugin>
           <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
           <artifactId>maven-changelog-plugin</artifactId>
           <version>2.3</version>
         </plugin>

3. Run the following command:

   mvn site
   

4. Observe the output:

   [INFO] Generating "Change Log" report    --- maven-changelog-plugin:2.3
   [INFO] Generating changed sets xml to: C:\projects\apache-maven-cookbook\project-with-documentation\target\changelog.xml
   [INFO] Executing: cmd.exe /X /C "git whatchanged "--since=2014-11-06 02:45:57 ...