Github Tips&Tricks

Closing an issue from a commit message:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1687262/link-to-github-issue-number-with-commit-message
https://github.com/blog/411-github-issue-tracker


Fixes #123
Closes #123
Closes GH-123
Closes gh-123

Just linking to an issue in a commit message:

#123

Generating changelog data from a git log output

git log --since="2011-06-13" --pretty=format:"%cd: %an%n* %B"

Where the date after since is the latest release date