matyan 0.3.4

Generate changelog from Git commits.

Generate changelog from Git commits.

Prerequisites

• Python 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8

Documentation

Documentation is available on Read the Docs.

Installation

Latest stable version on PyPI:

pip install matyan

Usage

See Basic concepts section to get impression on possible commit methodology and assumptions taken.

Generate changelog:

generate-changelog

Generate changelog skipping orphaned commits:

In some cases you would only want to show what has been done with tickets and skip all non-ticket related commits.

generate-changelog --no-other

Generate changelog between two releases:

In other cases you would want to show what has been done since last release. The following example would generate changelog since version 0.0.1 to version 0.0.3.

generate-changelog 0.0.1..0.0.3

Generate changelog between two branches:

Sometimes you just need to show the changes made on acceptance since last production release. The following example would generate changelog with changes that are on acceptance branch and not yet in master.

generate-changelog master..acceptance

Generate changelog with releases info shown

generate-changelog --show-releases

Generate changelog between releases with releases info shown

generate-changelog 0.0.1..0.0.3 --show-releases

Generate changelog between branches with releases info shown

generate-changelog master..dev --show-releases

Generate changelog for the latest release with releases info shown

generate-changelog --latest-release --show-releases

Generate changelog with headings only (no commit messages) and releases info shown

generate-changelog --headings-only --show-releases

Generate changelog between two branches, show unreleased changes only:

generate-changelog master..acceptance --show-releases --unreleased-only

Configuration

In order to customize names and texts, add a .matyan.ini in your project directory, form which you will be running the generate-changelog command.

Sample configuration:

[BranchTypes]
feature: Feature
bugfix: Bugfix
hotfix: Hotfix
deprecation: Deprecation

[OtherBranchType]
other: Other

[Unreleased]
unreleased: Unreleased

[IgnoreCommits]
exact: more
       clean up
       code comments
       more on docs
       repo
       working
       more on
       wip
       commit
prefix: more on
        continue on

Tips and tricks

Write to file

generate-changelog --show-releases 2>&1 | tee changelog.md

Create initial config file

matyan-make-config

Testing

Simply type:

./runtests.py

Or use tox:

tox

Or use tox to check specific env:

tox -e py36

Writing documentation

Keep the following hierarchy.

=====
title
=====

header
======

sub-header
----------

sub-sub-header
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

sub-sub-sub-header
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

sub-sub-sub-sub-header
++++++++++++++++++++++

sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-header
**************************

License

GPL-2.0-only OR LGPL-2.1-or-later

Support

For any issues contact me at the e-mail given in the Author section.

Author

Artur Barseghyan <[e-mail]>