Add latest changes action #148
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The latest-changes GitHub action allows us to automate our change log generation, including the related PR and author as a byproduct. You can see an example of the difference here. In this example:
An interesting feature of this tool is it can be manually triggered on historical PRs. So if we want to rewrite and clean up the history of this tool, this makes it possible to do so.
Note: Before this tool functions, it requires the create of an
ACTION_TOKENsecret for the repo that has push permissions. I do not have the authority to do so.