Link daily commits with your issue tracking system simply ✨

Using commit-cli will allow you to easily create a new branches using the issue ID you are working on and also to add this ID to your commit messages automatically.

Creating New branch

Commit Messages

Installation

npm i -g @aabdelnasser/commit-cli

Then add .commit-cli.config.json in the root directory of your project

Currently commit-cli support Gitlab Issues and Atlassian Jira but you can support any other issue tracking system in a PR

.commit-cli.config.json for Gitlab integration

{
  "ticketIdExtractorRe": "#\\d*",
  "ticketIdFormatter": "#__COMMIT_CLI_TICKET_ID__",
  "commitMessageFormatter": "__COMMIT_CLI_MESSAGE__ [__COMMIT_CLI_TICKET_ID__]",
  "branchNameFormatter": "abdallahabdelnasser/__COMMIT_CLI_TICKET_ID__/__COMMIT_CLI_BRANCH_NAME__",
  "usedService": "gitlab",
  "gitlab": {
    "apiToken": "******************",
    "project": "AAbdelnasser/commit-cli",
    "searchQueries": [
      "scope=all&state=opened&labels=in%20progress&assignee_username[]=AAbdelnasser",
      "scope=all&state=opened&labels=review&assignee_username[]=AAbdelnasser"
    ]
  }
}

.commit-cli.config.json for Atlassian Jira integration

{
  "ticketIdExtractorRe": "EX-\\d+",
  "ticketIdFormatter": "__COMMIT_CLI_TICKET_ID__",
  "commitMessageFormatter": "__COMMIT_CLI_MESSAGE__ [__COMMIT_CLI_TICKET_ID__]",
  "branchNameFormatter": "abdallahabdelnasser/__COMMIT_CLI_TICKET_ID__/__COMMIT_CLI_BRANCH_NAME__",
  "usedService": "jira",
  "jira": {
    "url": "https://my-domain.atlassian.net",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "apiToken": "********************",
    "ticketsJql": "project = EX AND status in (\"In Progress\", Review) AND assignee in (abdalla.abdelnasser)"
  }
}

.commit-cli.config.json for Clubhouse

{
  "ticketIdExtractorRe": "ch\\d+",
  "ticketIdFormatter": "ch__COMMIT_CLI_TICKET_ID__",
  "commitMessageFormatter": "__COMMIT_CLI_MESSAGE__ [__COMMIT_CLI_TICKET_ID__]",
  "branchNameFormatter": "abdallahabdelnasser/__COMMIT_CLI_TICKET_ID__/__COMMIT_CLI_BRANCH_NAME__",
  "usedService": "clubhouse",
  "clubhouse": {
    "apiToken": "********************",
    "query": "owner:abdallahabdelnasser state:\"Ready for Deploy\""
  }
}

Usage

for creating new branch

commit-cli b branch-name

then your issues will be loaded, so you can select which issue related to this branch.

to commit

commit-cli c "your-commit-message"

you can use the latest issue ID from your previous commit directly, or you type N (No) then your issues will be loaded, so you can select which issue related to this commit.