Using grunt-conventional-changelog retroactively

Question

I'm using grunt-conventional-changelog in my build process, and it's fantastic. However, I can't seem to figure out how to get this grunt task to parse all of my previous commits and git tags from before I added this task to my build flow.

Is there an option I can specify to retroactively go through my git history and generate a changelog? I can't seem to modify its current behavior of parsing the most recent commits since last running grunt changelog.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Use the git-changelog grunt plugin, it provides an option tag for specifying the git tag from which you want to generate the Changelog from (providing false for commits from the beginning)

git_changelog: {
    extended: {
        options: {
            repo_url: 'https://github.com/repo/repo-name',
            app_name: 'Repo Name',
            tag: false //False for commits since the beginning
        }
    }
}