DEVS & PLUGIN CREATORS: Change Log Software?

[prehabitat]

Hi Devs, Plugin Creators and anyone else who knows about it,

I'm looking at making a change log for a template we use regularly for starting projects for a particular client.

we only started working with the client early last year and their needs are evolving, as are our experience and technologies we're applying to the project, so the template is changing a lot more than templates usually do (think fortnightly, rather than yearly/quarterly)... this presents a training issue with the team; while they're pretty strong, its definitely better to be informative when something changes - especially if it required retrospective updates to live projects.

Having never written a change log before I wondered if the IT industry has a solution for tracking changes requested (work orders) and can generate a basic log based on Completed Work Orders (since last log issue).

Obviously I can type up a to-do list, and copy paste them to a change log. However as someone who is always looking for optimisation (of time) I thought I'd see if there's a better way...

[stratified]

Usually, software is under version control and each change is "committed" and logged with version control software. You don't have to use it for source code, you can use it for any kind of file. (google svn, git, mercurial, ...). I guess there's a solution out there that is more tailored towards vfx professionals.

Some more googling brought up a youtube video about the use of git in VFX..

cheers,
Thomas