Why and How to add changelog in your next CLI

1 · Bhupesh Varshney · Dec. 3, 2021, midnight
Your CLI application might be good but its not great, you know what would be great. If it had release notes shipped with it. I mean seriously you have --help to look for help --version to check version --update possibly to update it What’s holding us back to add a --changelog as well? Why add changelogs? A. Because its the only thing left in a CLI that qualify them as a “fully package piece of software”. B. You can save a bunch of time debugging what’s wrong with a command just by reading the...