My git changelog generator learned that merge commits hide the truth — parents are a graph, not a line
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I built a git changelog generator that diffs two commits and emits structured release notes. First version walked git log A..B and treated every commit as a straight line. Clean, deterministic, wrong. The bug: on a repo with a normal PR workflow, git log A..B on the main branch shows merge commits…
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- 2026-10-17 23:01 · DEV Community — AI
My git changelog generator learned that merge commits hide the truth — parents are a graph, not a line