How to generate a CHANGELOG?

[Perry]

How can you make Vault generate a CHANGELOG (ie, output summaries of all changes -- or at least, all non-minor changes -- to a traditional CHANGELOG-style text file)?

[dan]

You can invoke a history query and then save it off using a few different formats, which could give you log info about what has changed.

[Perry]

Ah, ok, thanks -- that sounds like a great start.

I would just need to find out how to do that from a commandline client, and then set that up to happen on some type of schedule (or is there a way to make it happen whenever there is a non-minor change?)

I admit, I was really hoping someone else who had already done this would helpfully post their already worked out answer

[dan]

The command line client will output history in XML format, so you'd need to do some post-processing on it to put it into a more easily readable format. Sorry we don't have anything set up already - maybe someone will post here if they have something you can use.

[jeremy_sg]

This is a goal for me in the short term which, I want to post to my Vault API blog at http://weblogs.asp.net/jeremy_sheeley

When I get it done, I plan to check in the changes to add them to the command line client.