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No one uses semantic email subjects, why this? What is the value added?

If this is an excuse to autogenerate your changelog, no thank you.

So what would you do to generate them?

I don't. Write the CHANGELOG as you go. If you are worried about merge conflicts, drop separate files in a folder.

Anything editable/commentable is better than using immutable commit metadata to author an important part of your documentation.