changelist-init 0.4

Initialize and update Changelists information.

Changelist-Init

Manage your Git Repo file trees and Commit messages with Changelist powered workflows!

Requirements

• Python 3.10 or higher.
• pip (or similar package manager).
• cli or bash capabilities.

Introduction

Changelist-Init is a command-line tool (CLI) in an ecosystem of Changelist CLI tools. It plays the role of adding file changes from git into the project changelist data file.

• Sync changelists with git.
• Creates new changelists data file if necessary.

The related packages changelist-sort and changelist-foci serve other changelist management functions by reading, and writing to, the project changelist data file.

Related Packages

The package changelist-sort is for organizing the files in your Changelists.

• Sorts files into Changelists by directory

The package changelist-foci (File Oriented Commit Information) prints a commit message template for your Changelists.

• Various File Name and Path formatting options

The package changelist-data is a dependency of all Changelist packages.

• Provides read and write access to data files
• Contains common data classes, handles data serialization

CLI Arguments

The following arguments are optional.

• --changelist_file : The relative path to the changelists data file.
• --workspace_file : The relative path to the workspace data file.
• --include_untracked or -u: Asks git to include untracked files in changelists.

Package Details

Changelist Init (Main) Package

The root package init module provides high level methods:

• initialize_file_changes() -> list[FileChange]: Get updated FileChange information from Git.
• merge_file_changes() -> bool: Merge updated FileChange information into Changelists.

Input Package

The high-level package method validate_input, converts CLI program arguments into an InputData object.

• Parsing is handled by internal package modules, and the argparse library.
• Validation methods from the changelist-data package are used.

InputData

• storage: The ChangelistData Storage object.
• include_untracked: Whether untracked files are added to changelists. false by default.

Git Package

Use the get_status_lists() method to obtain updated file information from git.

Data Collection

Git Status Lists: A Collection of Data processed from Git Status operation.

• get_list(GitTrackingStatus) -> list[GitFileStatus]
• add_file_status(GitFileStatus)

Enum Class

Git Tracking Status:

• UNTRACKED
• UNSTAGED
• STAGED
• PARTIAL_STAGE

Internal Modules

Status Runner:

• run_git_status() -> str: Runs a Git Status Porcelain V1 operation, returns the stdout.
• run_untracked_status() -> str: Runs a sequence of Git operations to include untracked files in the Git Status output.

Status Reader:

• read_git_status_output(str) -> GitStatusLists: Read Git Status Porcelain V1 stdout.
• read_git_status_line(str) -> GitFileStatus | None: Read a single line of Git Status Porcelain V1. Ignores Directory lines.

Status Codes:

• get_status_code_change_map(str) -> Callable[]: Construct a FileChange map function for a Git Status code.