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gitchangelog generates a changelog thanks to git log.

Project description

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Use your commit log to make beautifull and configurable changelog file.

Feature

  • fully driven by a config file that can be tailored with your changelog policies. (see for example the reference configuration file)

  • filter out commits/tags based on regexp matching

  • refactor commit summary, or commit body on the fly with replace regexp

  • classify commit message into sections (ie: New, Fix, Changes…)

  • any output format supported thanks to templating, you can even choose your own preferred template engine (mako, mustache, full python …).

  • support your merge or rebase workflows and complicated git histories

  • support full or incremental changelog generation to match your needs.

  • support easy access to trailers key values (if you use them)

  • support of multi-authors for one commit through Co-Authored-By trailers key values

  • support standard python installation or dep-free single executable. (this last feature is not yet completely pain free to use on Windows)

Requirements

gitchangelog is compatible Python 2 and Python 3 on Linux/BSD/MacOSX and Windows.

Please submit an issue if you encounter incompatibilities.

Installation

full package

Gitchangelog is published on PyPI, thus:

pip install gitchangelog

.. is the way to go for install the full package on any platform.

If you are installing from source, please note that the development tools are not working fully yet on Windows.

The full package provides the gitchangelog.py executable as long as:

  • a reference configuration file that provides system wide defaults for all values.

  • some example templates in mustache and mako templating engine’s language. Ideal to bootstrap your variations.

from source

If you’d rather work from the source repository, it supports the common idiom to install it on your system:

python setup.py install

Note that for linux/BSD, there’s a link to the executable in the root of the source. This can be a convenient way to work on the source version.

single executable installation

The file gitchangelog.py is a full blown executable and can be used without any other files. This is easier to use naturally on Linux/BSD systems. For instance, you could type in:

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vaab/gitchangelog/master/src/gitchangelog/gitchangelog.py > /usr/local/bin/gitchangelog &&
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gitchangelog

It’ll install gitchangelog to be accessible for all users and will use the default python interpreter of your running session.

Please note: if you choose to install it in this standalone mode, then you must make sure to value at least all the required configuration keys in your config file. As a good start you should probably copy the reference configuration file as you base configuration file.

This is due to the fact that gitchangelog can not anymore reach the reference configuration file to get default values.

Sample

The default output is ReSTructured text, so it should be readable in ASCII.

Here is a small sample of the gitchangelog changelog at work.

Current git log output so you can get an idea of the log history:

* 59f902a Valentin Lab new: dev: sections in changelog are now in the order given in ``gitchangelog.rc`` in the ``section_regexps`` option.  (0.1.2)
* c6f72cc Valentin Lab chg: dev: commented code to toggle doctest mode.
* a9c38f3 Valentin Lab fix: dev: doctests were failing on this.
* 59524e6 Valentin Lab new: usr: added ``body_split_regexp`` option to attempts to format correctly body of commit.
* 5883f07 Valentin Lab new: usr: use a list of tuple instead of a dict for ``section_regexps`` to be able to manage order between section on find match.
* 7c1d480 Valentin Lab new: dev: new ``unreleased_version_label`` option in ``gitchangelog.rc`` to change label of not yet released code.
* cf29c9c Valentin Lab fix: dev: bad sorting of tags (alphanumerical). Changed to commit date sort.
* 61d8f80 Valentin Lab fix: dev: support of empty commit message.
* eeca31b Valentin Lab new: dev: use ``gitchangelog`` section in ``git config`` world appropriately.
* 6142b71 Valentin Lab chg: dev: cosmetic removal of trailing whitespaces
* 3c3edd5 Valentin Lab fix: usr: ``git`` in later versions seems to fail on ``git config <key>`` with errlvl 255, that was not supported.
* 3f9617d Valentin Lab fix: usr: removed Traceback when there were no tags at all in the current git repository.
* e0db9ae Valentin Lab new: usr: added section classifiers (ie: New, Change, Bugs) and updated the sample rc file.  (0.1.1)
* 0c66d59 Valentin Lab fix: dev: Fixed case where exception was thrown if two tags are on the same commit.
* d2fae0d Valentin Lab new: usr: added a succint ``--help`` support.

And here is the gitchangelog output:

0.1.2 (2011-05-17)
------------------

New
~~~
- Sections in changelog are now in the order given in ``git-
  changelog.rc`` in the ``section_regexps`` option. [Valentin Lab]
- Added ``body_split_regexp`` option to attempts to format correctly
  body of commit. [Valentin Lab]
- Use a list of tuple instead of a dict for ``section_regexps`` to be
  able to manage order between section on find match. [Valentin Lab]
- New ``unreleased_version_label`` option in ``gitchangelog.rc`` to
  change label of not yet released code. [Valentin Lab]
- Use ``gitchangelog`` section in ``git config`` world appropriately.
  [Valentin Lab]

Changes
~~~~~~~
- Commented code to toggle doctest mode. [Valentin Lab]
- Cosmetic removal of trailing whitespaces. [Valentin Lab]

Fix
~~~
- Doctests were failing on this. [Valentin Lab]
- Bad sorting of tags (alphanumerical). Changed to commit date sort.
  [Valentin Lab]
- Support of empty commit message. [Valentin Lab]
- ``git`` in later versions seems to fail on ``git config <key>`` with
  errlvl 255, that was not supported. [Valentin Lab]
- Removed Traceback when there were no tags at all in the current git
  repository. [Valentin Lab]


0.1.1 (2011-04-07)
------------------

New
~~~
- Added section classifiers (ie: New, Change, Bugs) and updated the
  sample rc file. [Valentin Lab]
- Added a succint ``--help`` support. [Valentin Lab]

Fix
~~~
- Fixed case where exception was thrown if two tags are on the same
  commit. [Valentin Lab]

And the rendered full result is directly used to generate the HTML webpage of the changelog of the PyPI page.

Usage

The reference configuration file is delivered within gitchangelog package and is used to provides defaults to settings. If you didn’t install the package and used the standalone file, then chances are that gitchangelog can’t access these defaults values. This is not a problem as long as you provided all the required values in your config file.

The recommended location for gitchangelog config file is the root of the current git repository with the name .gitchangelog.rc. However you could put it elsewhere, and here are the locations checked (first match will prevail):

  • in the path given thanks to the environment variable GITCHANGELOG_CONFIG_FILENAME

  • in the path stored in git config’s entry gitchangelog.rc-path (which could be stored in system location or per repository)

  • (RECOMMENDED) in the root of the current git repository with the name .gitchangelog.rc

Then, you’ll be able to call gitchangelog in a GIT repository and it’ll print changelog on its standard output.

Configuration file format

The reference configuration file is quite heavily commented and is quite simple. You should be able to use it as required.

The changelog of gitchangelog is generated with himself and with the reference configuration file. You’ll see the output in the changelog of the PyPI page.

Output Engines

At the end of the configuration file, you’ll notice a variable called output_engine. By default, it’s set to rest_py, which is the legacy python engine to produce the ReSTructured Text output format that is shown in above samples. If this engine fits your needs, you won’t need to fiddle with this option.

To render the template, gitchangelog will generate a data structure that will then be rendered thanks to the output engine. This should help you get the exact output that you need.

As people might have different needs and knowledge, a templating system using mustache is available. mustache templates are provided to render both ReSTructured Text or markdown formats. If you know mustache templating, then you could easily add or modify these existing templates.

A mako templating engine is also provided. You’ll find also a mako template producing the same ReSTructured Text output than the legacy one. It’s provided for reference and/or further tweak if you would rather use mako templates.

Mustache

The mustache output engine uses mustache templates.

The mustache templates are powered via pystache the python implementation of the mustache specifications. So mustache output engine will only be available if you have pystache module available in your python environment.

There are mustache templates bundled with the default installation of gitchangelog. These can be called by providing a simple label to the mustache(..) output_engine, for instance (in your .gitchangelog.rc):

output_engine = mustache("markdown")

Or you could provide your own mustache template by specifying an absolute path (or a relative one, starting from the git toplevel of your project by default, or if set, the git config gitchangelog.template-path location) to your template file, for instance:

output_engine = mustache(".gitchangelog.tpl")

And feel free to copy the bundled templates to use them as bases for your own variations. In the source code, these are located in src/gitchangelog/templates/mustache directory, once installed they are in templates/mustache directory starting from where your gitchangelog.py was installed.

Mako

The makotemplate output engine templates for gitchangelog are powered via mako python templating system. So mako output engine will only be available if you have mako module available in your python environment.

There are mako templates bundled with the default installation of gitchangelog. These can be called by providing a simple label to the makotemplate(..) output_engine, for instance (in your .gitchangelog.rc):

output_engine = makotemplate("markdown")

Or you could provide your own mustache template by specifying an absolute path (or a relative one, starting from the git toplevel of your project by default, or if set, the git config gitchangelog.template-path location) to your template file, for instance:

output_engine = makotemplate(".gitchangelog.tpl")

And feel free to copy the bundled templates to use them as bases for your own variations. In the source code, these are located in src/gitchangelog/templates/mako directory, once installed they are in templates/mako directory starting from where your gitchangelog.py was installed.

Changelog data tree

This is a sample of the current data structure sent to output engines:

{'title': 'Changelog',
 'versions': [{'label': '%%version%% (unreleased)',
               'date': None,
               'tag': None
               'sections': [{'label': 'Changes',
                             'commits': [{'author': 'John doe',
                                          'body': '',
                                          'subject': 'Adding some extra values.'},
                                         {'author': 'John Doe',
                                          'body': '',
                                          'subject': 'Some more changes'}]},
                            {'label': 'Other',
                             'commits': [{'author': 'Jim Foo',
                                          'body': '',
                                          'subject': 'classic modification'},
                                         {'author': 'Jane Done',
                                          'body': '',
                                          'subject': 'Adding some stuff to do.'}]}]},
              {'label': 'v0.2.5 (2013-08-06)',
               'date': '2013-08-06',
               'tag': 'v0.2.5'
               'sections': [{'commits': [{'author': 'John Doe',
                                          'body': '',
                                          'subject': 'Updating Changelog installation.'}],
                             'label': 'Changes'}]}]}

Merged branches history support

Commit attribution to a specific version could be tricky. Suppose you have this typical merge tree (spot the tags!):

* new: something  (HEAD, tag: 0.2, develop)
*   Merge tag '0.1.1' into develop
|\
| * fix: out-of-band hotfix  (tag: 0.1.1)
* | chg: continued development
|/
* fix: something  (tag: 0.1)
* first commit  (tag: 0.0.1, master)

Here’s a minimal draft of gitchangelog to show how commit are attributed to versions:

0.2
  * new: something.
  * Merge tag '0.1.1' into develop.
  * chg: continued development.

0.1.1
  * fix: out-of-band hotfix.

0.1
  * fix: something.

Use cases

No sectionning

If you want to remove sectionning but keep anything else, you should probably use:

section_regexps = [
    ('', None)
]

subject_process = (strip | ucfirst | final_dot)

This will disable sectionning and won’t remove the prefixes used for sectionning from the commit’s summary.

Incremental changelog

Also known as partial changelog generation, this feature allows to generate only a subpart of your changelog, and combined with configurable publishing actions, you can insert the result inside an existing changelog. Usually this makes sense:

  • When wanting to switch to gitchangelog, or change your conventions:

    • part of your history is not following conventions.

    • you have a previous CHANGELOG you want to blend in.

  • You’d rather commit changes to your changelog file for each release:

    • For performance reason, you can then generate changelog only for the new commit and save the result.

    • Because you want to be able to edit it to make some minor edition if needed.

Generating partial changelog is as simple as gitchangelog REVLIST. Examples follows:

## will output only tags between 0.0.2 (excluded) and 0.0.3 (included)
gitchangelog 0.0.2..0.0.3

## will output only tags since 0.0.3 (excluded)
gitchangelog ^0.0.3 HEAD

## will output all tags up to 0.0.3 (included)
gitchangelog 0.0.3

Additionally, gitchangelog can figure out automatically which revision is the last for you (with some little help). This is done by specifying the revs config option. This config file option will be used as if specified on the command line.

Here is an example that fits the current changelog format:

revs = [
    Caret(
        FileFirstRegexMatch(
            "CHANGELOG.rst",
            r"(?P<rev>[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+))\s+\([0-9]+-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}\)\n--+\n")),
]

This will look into the file CHANGELOG.rst for the first match of the given regex and return the match of the rev regex sub-pattern it as a string. The Caret function will simply prefix the given string with a ^. As a consequence, this code will prevent recreating any previously generated changelog section (more information about the REVLIST syntax from git rev-list arguments.)

Note that the data structure provided to the template will set the title to None if you provided no REVLIST through command-line or the config file (or if the revlist was equivalently set to ["HEAD", ]). This a good way to make your template detect it is in “incremental mode”.

By default, this will only output to standard output the new sections of your changelog, you might want to insert it directly in your existing changelog. This is where publish parameters will help you. By default it is set to stdout, and you might want to set it to:

publish = FileInsertIntoFirstRegexMatch(
    "CHANGELOG.rst",
    r'/(?P<rev>[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)\s+\([0-9]+-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}\)\n--+\n/',
    idx=lambda m: m.start(1)
)

The full recipe could be:

OUTPUT_FILE = "CHANGELOG.rst"
INSERT_POINT = r"\b(?P<rev>[0-9]+\.[0-9]+)\s+\([0-9]+-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}\)\n--+\n"
revs = [
        Caret(FileFirstRegexMatch(OUTPUT_FILE, INSERT_POINT)),
        "HEAD"
]

action = FileInsertAtFirstRegexMatch(
    OUTPUT_FILE, INSERT_POINT,
    idx=lambda m: m.start(1)
)

Alternatively, you can use this other recipe, using FileRegexSubst, that has the added advantage of being able to update the unreleased part if you had it already generated and need a re-fresh because you added new commits or amended some commits:

OUTPUT_FILE = "CHANGELOG.rst"
INSERT_POINT_REGEX = r'''(?isxu)
^
(
  \s*Changelog\s*(\n|\r\n|\r)        ## ``Changelog`` line
  ==+\s*(\n|\r\n|\r){2}              ## ``=========`` rest underline
)

(                     ## Match all between changelog and release rev
    (
      (?!
         (?<=(\n|\r))                ## look back for newline
         %(rev)s                     ## revision
         \s+
         \([0-9]+-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}\)(\n|\r\n|\r)   ## date
           --+(\n|\r\n|\r)                          ## ``---`` underline
      )
      .
    )*
)

(?P<rev>%(rev)s)
''' % {'rev': r"[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?"}

revs = [
    Caret(FileFirstRegexMatch(OUTPUT_FILE, INSERT_POINT_REGEX)),
    "HEAD"
]

publish = FileRegexSubst(OUTPUT_FILE, INSERT_POINT_REGEX, r"\1\o\g<rev>")

As a second example, here is the same recipe for mustache markdown format:

OUTPUT_FILE = "CHANGELOG.rst"
INSERT_POINT_REGEX = r'''(?isxu)
^
(
  \s*\#\s+Changelog\s*(\n|\r\n|\r)        ## ``Changelog`` line
)

(                     ## Match all between changelog and release rev
    (
      (?!
         (?<=(\n|\r))                ## look back for newline
         \#\#\s+%(rev)s                     ## revision
         \s+
         \([0-9]+-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}\)(\n|\r\n|\r)   ## date
      )
      .
    )*
)

(?P<tail>\#\#\s+(?P<rev>%(rev)s))
''' % {'rev': r"[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?"}

revs = [
    Caret(FileFirstRegexMatch(OUTPUT_FILE, INSERT_POINT_REGEX)),
    "HEAD"
]

publish = FileRegexSubst(OUTPUT_FILE, INSERT_POINT_REGEX, r"\1\o\n\g<tail>")

Contributing

Any suggestion or issue is welcome. Push request are very welcome, please check out the guidelines.

Push Request Guidelines

You can send any code. I’ll look at it and will integrate it myself in the code base while leaving you as the commit(s) author. This process can take time and it’ll take less time if you follow the following guidelines:

  • check your code with PEP8 or pylint. Try to stick to 80 columns wide.

  • separate your commits per smallest concern

  • each functionality/bugfix commit should contain the code, tests, and doc.

  • each commit should pass the tests (to allow easy bisect)

  • prior minor commit with typographic or code cosmetic changes are very welcome. These should be tagged in their commit summary with !minor.

  • the commit message should follow gitchangelog rules (check the git log to get examples)

  • if the commit fixes an issue or finished the implementation of a feature, please mention it in the summary.

If you have some questions about guidelines which is not answered here, please check the current git log, you might find previous commit that would show you how to deal with your issue. Otherwise, just send your PR and ask your question. I won’t bite. Promise.

License

Copyright (c) 2012-2018 Valentin Lab.

Licensed under the BSD License.

Changelog

3.0.4 (2018-03-17)

Fix

  • Conform to PEP479 as required by python 3.7 (fixes #101) [Valentin Lab]

3.0.3 (2017-04-23)

Fix

  • API cli change not documented about implicit HEAD removed in revision list specifier. (fixes #81) [Valentin Lab]

    In 2.5.1, gitchangelog show ^3.0.0 command would implicitly add a HEAD in the revlist specifiers, effectively being equivalent to 0.0.3..HEAD.

    This behavior is removed in 3.0.0+ to stick to git rev-list REVLIST syntax. As a consequence, gitchangelog ^3.0.0 won’t select any revision and thus will cast an error about no commits matching revlist.

3.0.2 (2017-04-21)

Fix

  • [mustache/markdown] template is now compatible with incremental changelog generation patterns. (fixes #80) [Valentin Lab]

3.0.1 (2017-03-17)

Fix

  • Support of commits with empty message. (fixes #76) [Valentin Lab]

3.0.0 (2017-03-17)

New

  • Template path can now be specified in git config. (fixes #73) [Valentin Lab]

  • Added FileRegexSubst to allow updatable incremental recipe. [Valentin Lab]

    With the added function and recipe as an example, you can update a current unreleased changelog additionaly to the traditional incremental behavior. FileRegexSubst might prove itself to be more powerfull tahn FileInsertAtFirstRegexMatch if you handle fairly complex regexes.

  • Configurable publish action to allow more automated changelog scenarios (fixes #39) [Valentin Lab]

    In particular, projects using incremental changelog generation can now fully automate the process by using a publish action that inserts new sections in an existing changelog file.

  • unreleased_version_label can now be computed on the fly. [Valentin Lab]

    This can let you rename the first section about non yet tagged commit more precisely. For instance by using the commit hash or any git property.

  • Full tested windows support added. [Valentin Lab]

  • Reference config file is not anymore required. (fixes #54) [Valentin Lab]

  • New revs config file option allowing dynamically setting target rev-list. (fixes #61) [Valentin Lab]

    With this option, incremental changelog become more streamlined. With prior behavior, you had to know which was the last version prior to calling gitchangelog. Now, calling gitchangelog alone can generate the exact last missing part thanks to this new config option.

  • Templates now support direct path to files (fixes #46, fixes #63). [Héctor Pablos, Valentin Lab]

    Note that relative paths will be searched from the git toplevel.

  • Provide helpers to integrate Co-Authored-By trailer value. (fixes #69) [Valentin Lab]

    You can use now commit["authors"] in templates to get a list of all authors of a commit. See the mako template restructuredtext.tpl for example of usage. Mustache templates gets also their own baked in joined list of authors through commit["author_names_joined"].

  • Provide complete access on commit API to templates (fixes #18) [Valentin Lab]

  • Supports trailer key values support. [Valentin Lab]

  • Windows compatibility. [Jean-Baptiste Lab, Laurent LAPORTE, Michele, Valentin Lab]

Changes

  • Use tagger date when tags are annotated instead of commit date. (fixes #60) [Valentin Lab]

  • Removed the need of the show positional argument. [Valentin Lab]

  • Suppression of the obsolete gitchangelog init command. [Valentin Lab]

Fix

  • Support closed or closing pipes on gitchangelog’s stdout gracefully. [Valentin Lab]

    Python would output some angry comments for instance when using:

    gitchangelog | head

    Now it is much more graceful and will let the process finish earlier without complaining.

  • Revlist would not work as expected on windows. [Valentin Lab]

    Windows does not support single quotes in command line as linux does. Fortunately there is no requirements on singles quotes so they were removed everywhere, ensuring a better windows compatibility.

  • Using revlists could display unwanted commits or no commits. [Valentin Lab]

    This was happening when specifying revisions that didn’t match commits tagged by tags matching the tag_filter_regexp.

  • Ability to specify rev-lists for partial changelogs creation was not working on windows. [Valentin Lab]

  • Encoding issues prevented log to be outputed on specific windows versions. [Valentin Lab]

  • Fixed encoding issue when reading UTF-8 git logs with a different default locale. [Valentin Lab]

    Windows platform were more likely to get hit by this bug as their default code page is not utf-8. It was fixed by using an explicit encoding when reading git logs. The default value for this encoding can now be set in the gitchangelog’s config file, per-repository. Although, this option should be only set in pathological configuration as the default behavior is to use git config i18n.logOutputEncoding when set, or if not set, utf-8, which is the default log encoding of git.

2.5.1 (2015-11-11)

Fix

  • Reference config is used for defaults. [Tuukka Mustonen]

  • Error message when called in non-git directories was not correctly displayed on python 3. [Valentin Lab]

  • --debug argument would generate command line arguments parsing errors on python 2.7. (fixes #66) [Valentin Lab]

2.5.0 (2016-10-16)

New

  • Hide unexpected traceback per default and allow them to be displayed if wanted. [Valentin Lab]

  • New lines fixes in current default ReST format (fixes #62) [Stavros Korokithakis]

    These were modified:

    • no new line between list element, except when there’s some body message to display, then use only one new line at the beginning of the body to issues with possible lists in body.

    • one new line before section titles.

    • two new lines before versions titles.

Fix

  • Output warning on stderr in some weird cases (fixes #52) [Valentin Lab]

    If no tag are found in the repository, or no tag matches the filter regex, or if all commits are ignored… this will lead to disturbing but legit outputs from gitchangelog. So as to help diagnose what is going on, additional warnings are then printed when edge cases are encountered.

  • [mustache/restructuredtext] avoid HTML-escaping content of variables (fixes #64) [Mark Milstein]

2.4.0 (2015-11-10)

New

  • Add optional positional argument REVLIST to allow incremental changelog output (fixes #26) [Valentin Lab]

    See use cases documentations for more information.

2.3.0 (2015-09-25)

Fix

  • Nasty hidden bug that would break python3 (fixes #27) [Valentin Lab]

    Actually this bug was revealed by python3 random hashes (thanks to @rschoon for the hint) and could be reproduced on python2.7 with -R mode.

    The git show command actually will behave differently if given a tag reference and print random unexpected information before using the format string. This would prefix a lot of mess to the first field being asked in the format string.

    And this first field is dependent on the internal order of a dict, and this order is not important as such, and so nothing was done on this part.

    On python2.7, somehow, it would always be the same order that revealed to have no consequence (probably one of the rare field not used in current changelogs).

    Python3 or Python2.7 -R would shuffle this order and then trigger the error whenever this prefix would be appended to actually important fields that went into some further processing (as casted to int for the timestamp for instance).

2.2.1 (2015-06-09)

Fix

  • Fix: doc: ìnclude_merge options was wrongly typed in sample config files (reported by @tuukkamustonen, fixed #29). [Valentin Lab]

  • Updated doc to reflec that there are no support of windows for now. (fixes #28) [Valentin Lab]

    Actually windows will fail on subprocess call. (see #28)

  • Remove commit’s meta-information footer from changelog output. (fixes #25) [Valentin Lab]

    Some various tools (thinking of Gerrit) might leave some meta-information in the footer of your commit message’s body that you do not want to be repeated in your changelog. So all values in the footer are removed (This concerns Change-Id, Acked-by, CC, Signed-off-by, Bug … and any other value).

2.2.0 (2015-01-27)

New

  • Provide support for older config file format. [Valentin Lab]

  • Added ‘octobercms-plugin’ mako template. (fixes #16) [Valentin Lab]

  • Added body_process and subject_process options. (fixes #22) [Valentin Lab]

    These options superseeds replace_regexps and body_split_regexp as they provide a full control over text transformation of the subject or the body of the commit before they get included in the changelog.

  • Added include_merge option to filter out merge commit. [Casey Duquette]

Changes

  • Produce a more linear commit history (fixes #14) [Casey Duquette]

    Instead of retrieving the git log ordered by date, retrieve the log as a difference between tags to produce a more accurate view of changes between releases.

    For instance, imagine this git graph:

    * 6c0fd62 (HEAD, tag: sprint-6, origin/smoke, smoke, develop)
    *   5292a28 Merge back to develop
    |\
    | * 6612fce (tag: sprint-5.1, origin/master, origin/HEAD, master) super important hotfix
    * | 7d6286f more development work
    * | 8c1e3d6 continued development work
    * | fa3d4bd development work
    |/
    * ec1a19c (tag: sprint-5)

    Previously, commits fa3d4bd, 8c1e3d6, 7d6286f that occurred on the develop branch before the hotfix that led to tagging sprint-5.1, were captured in the changelog under release sprint-5.1 because of the order of the commits. But it is obvious that these commits were not included in a release until sprint-6. The new method of calculating the changelog will capture this and reflect it properly, assigning those changes to sprint-6.

Fix

  • Last commit was omitted (fixes #23). [Valentin Lab]

  • Bogus messages when template didn’t exist. [Valentin Lab]

    Refactored out the common code and corrected the bad error message.

  • Removed hypothetical memory exhaust while parsing git log. [Valentin Lab]

    Parse stdout as it’s produced by git log by chunks.

2.1.2 (2014-04-25)

Fix

  • Fail with error message when config path exists but is not a file. (fixes #11) [Casey Duquette]

    For example, the config file could be a directory.

2.1.1 (2014-04-15)

Fix

  • Removed exception if you had file which name that matched a tag’s name. (fixes #9) [Valentin Lab]

2.1.0 (2014-03-25)

New

  • Python3 compatibility. [Valentin Lab]

  • Much greater performance on big repository by issuing only one shell command for all the commits. (fixes #7) [Valentin Lab]

  • Add init argument to create a full .gitchangelog.rc in current git repository. [Valentin Lab]

  • Remove optional first argument that could specify the target git repository to consider. [Valentin Lab]

    This is to remove duplicate way to do things. gitchangelog should be run from within a git repository.

    Any usage of gitchangelog MYREPO can be written (cd MYREPO; gitchangelog).

  • Use a standard formatting configuration by default. [Valentin Lab]

    A default standard way of formatting is used if you don’t provide any configuration file. Additionaly, any option you define in your configuration file will be added “on-top” of the default configuration values. This can reduce config file size or even remove the need of one if you follow the standard.

    And, thus, you can tweak the standard for your needs by providing only partial configuration file. See tests for examples.

  • Remove user or system wide configuration file lookup. [Valentin Lab]

    This follows reflexion that you build a changelog for a repository and that the rules to make the changelog should definitively be explicit and thus belongs to the repository itself.

    Not a justification, but removing user and system wide configuration files also greatly simplifies testability.

Fix

  • Encoding issues with non-ascii chars. [Valentin Lab]

  • Avoid using pipes for windows compatibility and be more performant by avoiding to unroll full log to get the last commit. [Valentin Lab]

  • Better support of exotic features of git config file format. (fixes #4) [Valentin Lab]

    git config file format allows ambiguous keys:

    [a “b.c”]

    d = foo

    [a.b “c”]

    e = foo

    [a.b.c]

    f = foo

    Are all valid. So code was simplified to use directly git config. This simplification will deal also with cases where section could be attributed values:

    [a “b”]

    c = foo

    [a]

    b = foo

    By avoiding to parse the entire content of the file, and relying on git config implementation we ensure to remain compatible and not re-implement the parsing of this file format.

  • Gitchangelog shouldn’t fail if it fails to parse your git config. [Michael Hahn]

2.0.0 (2013-08-20)

New

  • Added a mako output engine with standard ReSTructured text format for reference. [Valentin Lab]

  • Added some information on path lookup scheme to find gitchangelog.rc configuration file. [Valentin Lab]

  • Added templating system and examples with mustache template support for restructured text and markdown output format. [David Loureiro]

Changes

  • Removed pkg and dev commits from default sample changelog output. [Valentin Lab]

Fix

  • Some error message weren’t written on stderr. [Valentin Lab]

1.1.0 (2012-05-03)

New

  • New config file lookup scheme which adds a new possible default location .gitchangelog.rc in the root of the git repository. [Valentin Lab]

  • Added a new section to get a direct visual of gitchangelog output. Reworded some sentences and did some other minor additions. [Valentin Lab]

Changes

  • Removed old gitchangelog.rc.sample in favor of the new documented one. [Valentin Lab]

Fix

  • The sample file was not coherent with the doc, and is now accepting ‘test’ and ‘doc’ audience. [Valentin Lab]

1.0.2 (2012-05-02)

New

  • Added a new sample file heavily documented. [Valentin Lab]

Fix

  • ignore_regexps where bogus and would match only from the beginning of the line. [Valentin Lab]

  • Display author date rather than commit date. [Valentin Lab]

0.1.2 (2011-06-29)

New

  • Added body_split_regexp option to attempts to format correctly body of commit. [Valentin Lab]

  • Use a list of tuple instead of a dict for section_regexps to be able to manage order between section on find match. [Valentin Lab]

Fix

  • git in later versions seems to fail on git config <key> with errlvl 255, that was not supported. [Valentin Lab]

  • Removed Traceback when there were no tags at all in the current git repository. [Valentin Lab]

0.1.1 (2011-06-29)

New

  • Added section classifiers (ie: New, Change, Bugs) and updated the sample rc file. [Valentin Lab]

  • Added a succint --help support. [Valentin Lab]

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