Is it possible to generate changelog from PR merge commit?

[seriaati]

Say I have a branch dev and I commit the following into the branch:

• fix(core): Fix something
• chore(deps): Update dependencies

After that, I open a PR to merge branch dev into branch main.
Then, I use the "squash and merge" feature to merge the PR to branch main.
The main branch now has a commit Merged branch dev to main or something like that, with the commits in dev in the description of the commit.
Now, is it possible to "extract" the commits made in dev from that merge commit in main and add them into the changelog when I make a changelog in main?

[MeitarR]

Yes!

git cliff receives a "commit range" as a parameter.

so you can do something like

git cliff --strip all main..dev

and you will get the output you wanted. the strip all part is to make sure that no header/footer is added to the output.