Git-journal: The Git Commit Message and Changelog Generation Framework

#1

Hey rustaceans! :slight_smile:

I just like to mention my current rust project git-journal, which tries to solve problems when generating a changelog from the git commit history. I am trying to generate more ideas about related problems which could be solved by such a project. What do you think? :blush:

Any feedback is desirable. :sunny: Thank you!

#2

I just released version 0.2.0 with some enhancements:

  • Added footer accumulation including templating support
    • Added configuration option enable_footers
    • Improved documentation about it
    • Improved unit tests to increase test coverage
  • Improved internal code structure by reorganizing traits
  • Changed travis to run code coverage only on nightly builds
#3

This looks really neat. I’m going to definitely see if this would work well for me.

#4

Thank you for the feedback! :slight_smile: For version 0.3.0 I had to change the templating engine a bit to keep the order of the sections in a correct way.

#5

I think this has some overlap with semantic-rs, have you had a look at that?

#6

Good hint, thank you. I will have a deeper look at it but for now I think the scope is just a bit different. Maybe both projects could benefit from each other.

#7

Version 0.5.0 (released today) adds rayon multiprocessing support and custom footers and headers to the templating engine. Feedback appreciated. :slight_smile: Thank you very much! :sunny:

#8

This is very cool! I’ve been using clog for most of my projects thus far. This looks like it does a good bit more, which is awesome.

The one thing I couldn’t find, that I’d really like is how clog links your “Fixes #2” to actual issues in your repo which makes it very easy while going through a changelog and seeing what all the fuss was about. It also links each message to an actual commit link in a repo which is nice for the same reasons.

I’m going to start playing with git-journal and see how it goes! :slight_smile:

#9

Thank you for the feedback! Yes such a “linking feature” is not implemented yet. But it is a good point, I will put it on the list. To make it generic a URL pattern for issues could be set, which are then linked agains the issue keys. :clap:

#10

I just added such a commit message linking functionality to the current release. Since github already links issues and commit hashes it should work as intended. :smile: