Update Maven's changes.xml automatically from git commit messages

Question

Is there a Maven plugin that generates the changes.xml file for the changes plugin (http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-changes-plugin/index.html) automatically using the information provided by the Git commits?

This git log

commit af2ce13dc277d862ffddf4c03c809b73587188e3
Author: Stefan Birkner <[email protected]>
Date:   Tue Feb 11 00:13:53 2014 +0100

    [maven-release-plugin] prepare release system-rules-1.5.0

commit e78934311d68a0fb081d7a46e313952e21bd93f8
Author: Stefan Birkner <[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Feb 5 00:10:25 2014 +0100

    Fix wrong method names in class' Javadoc.


commit 42c054881fff69f682d7f3f6ecee51974f515d80
Author: Stefan Birkner <[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Sep 11 10:26:23 2013 +0200

    [maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development iteration

should be used to create this changes.xml section:

<release version="1.5.0" date="1024-02-11">
  <action dev="Stefan Birkner" type="fix" date="2014-02-05">
    Fix wrong method names in class' Javadoc.
  </action>
</release>

Answer 1

The maven-gitlog-plugin plugin generates a changelog (not exactly generates your changes.xml file).

Also the official maven changes plugin has now support for github. See configuring github report.