Is there a utility/tool that will extract Git comments into a nice release notes document?

Question

I would like to extract Git comments of a specific application branch into a formatted release notes for a specific application version.

I can extract it to a text file or copy the revision history from VS2017 to Excel, but it requires some additional cleaning and filtering.

Answer 1

If you want to generate release notes from git log messages, there's any number of tools available to do that. git-release-notes for example.

Most require that the logs are written in a certain format for the result to make any sense. You can rewrite your logs with the reword feature of an interactive rebase.