Very familiar with Git and git-flow (the paradigm and script to facilitate it), I recently took a shining toward git-extras changelog utility: it tags a landmark and updates a repo-tracked History.md file with raw commit messages since the previous changelog tagging.
What is the best way to administer and maintain this History.md using git-flow? Right now I am issuing all the normal git-flow commands, but specifically just before a finish (of hotfix or release), I run:
git changelog --tag 2014_Nov13
for instance, vim History.md to manually strip out any "merged develop into master" and even prune and consolidated developers' commit messages into something more digestible for posterity, then issue
git commit -am "Updates History.md"
followed by git flow release / hotfix finish.
Is there a more appropriate way?