feat: automate release/changelog with release-please

Author: steveukx

.github/workflows/release-please.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+name: release-please
+
+on:
+   push:
+      branches:
+         - main
+
+jobs:
+   release-please:
+      runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+      steps:
+         - uses: google-github-actions/release-please-action@v2
+           with:
+              token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+              release-type: node
+              package-name: simple-git
+
+         -  uses: actions/checkout@v2
+            if: ${{ steps.release.outputs.release_created }}
+
+         - uses: actions/setup-node@v1
+           with:
+              node-version: 14
+              registry-url: 'https://registry.npmjs.org'
+           if: ${{ steps.release.outputs.release_created }}
+
+         - run: yarn
+           if: ${{ steps.release.outputs.release_created }}
+
+         - run: yarn preversion
+           if: ${{ steps.release.outputs.release_created }}
+
+         - run: npm publish
+           env:
+              NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{secrets.NPM_TOKEN}}
+           if: ${{ steps.release.outputs.release_created }}

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -303,14 +303,6 @@ please only use the documented public API.
 `git.log`. 
 
 
-## 1.110.0 - ListLogLine
-
-- The default format expression used in `.log` splits ref data out of the `message` into a property of its own:  `{ message: 'Some commit message (some-branch-name)' }` becomes `{ message: 'Some commit message', refs: 'some-branch-name' }` |
-- The commit body content is now included in the default format expression and can be used to identify the content of merge conflicts eg: `{ body: '# Conflicts:\n# some-file.txt' }` | 
-
-
-## 1.0.0
-
-Bumped to a new major revision in the 1.x branch, now uses `ChildProcess.spawn` in place of `ChildProcess.exec` to
-add escaping to the arguments passed to each of the tasks.
+## v1 and below
 
+Please see the [historical changelog](./docs/CHANGELOG-HISTORICAL.md);

docs/CHANGELOG-HISTORICAL.md

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+# Change History & Release Notes
+
+## 1.110.0 - ListLogLine
+
+- The default format expression used in `.log` splits ref data out of the `message` into a property of its own:  `{ message: 'Some commit message (some-branch-name)' }` becomes `{ message: 'Some commit message', refs: 'some-branch-name' }` |
+- The commit body content is now included in the default format expression and can be used to identify the content of merge conflicts eg: `{ body: '# Conflicts:\n# some-file.txt' }` | 
+
+
+## 1.0.0
+
+Bumped to a new major revision in the 1.x branch, now uses `ChildProcess.spawn` in place of `ChildProcess.exec` to
+add escaping to the arguments passed to each of the tasks.
+