conventional-git-log

Extend git log with conventional commits, origin URL and custom replacements. Best used for creating CHANGELOG.md the way you want it!

Install

Global

npm install -g conventional-git-log

For one project

npm install conventional-git-log

Usage

Basic command line call

conventional-git-log

Call with configuration

You can either specify a configuration location with the config option conventional-git-log --config="path/to/config.json" or you put a cglconfig.json somewhere up the tree structure. If you don't want the configuration up the tree to be used pass an empty string to the config option.

package.json call

If you have installed this tool for the project you can reference it in your package.json in the scripts by calling node_modules/.bin/convention-commit-log [parameters]. Take a look in this projects package.json for more information.

Options

The options can be either used in as CLI parameters or in the configuration file. I do definitely suggest you to use the configuration file since you will find typos more quickly.

| Option | Description | Default | |:------------------|:-------------|---------| | config | Configuration JSON file. CLI ONLY | undefined | | format | Format based on git log format. In addition there are Custom placeholder(see below) | "* **%_hScope:** %_hSubject ([%h](%_o/commit/%h)) @%an%n * %_b%n * %_f" | | since | Since which tag commits should be crawled. Tag commit itself will not be included. "package" gets the current version from the package.json file and prepends an "v". "" means no limitation. | "package" | | orderBy | Custom placeholder which should be sorted by. | "%_hScope" | | order | "ASC" for ascending and "DESC" for descending order. | "ASC" | | groupRegex | Array of objects to create groups. If parsing of the groupRegex fails the following fallback will be used [{regex: /.*/,headline: 'All commits'}] which outputs all commits with the headline "All commits" | {searchValue: {regexBody: "BREAKING CHANGE"}, headline: "Breaking changes"},{searchValue: {regexBody: "^feat"}, headline: "Features"},{searchValue: {regexBody: "^fix"}, headline: "Fixes"} | | groupTemplate | Template for the Headline. The groupRegex.headline will be inserted for %_headline placeholder available only here. | "## %_headline" | | outputEmptyGroup | Should be a group without commits be outputted? | true | | replaceSubject | Replaces the subject of the conventional commit. Array of objects with searchValue and replaceValue properties. Replace can be a String or a RegExp Object| null | | replaceBody | Replaces the body of the conventional commit. Array of objects with searchValue and replaceValue properties. Replace can be a String or a RegExp Object | null | | replaceFooter | Replaces the Footer of the conventional commit. Array of objects with searchValue and replaceValue properties. Replace can be a String or a RegExp Object | null | | replaceInterpolated | Replaces the commit output after all interpolations and replacements of the conventional commit. Array of objects with searchValue and replaceValue properties. Replace can be a String or a RegExp Object| null | | q | Should additional output will be suppressed? | false |

Custom placeholder

| Placeholder | Description | |:------------------|:-------------| | %_hScope | Scope of conventional commit | | %_hSubject | Subject of conventional commit | | %_hType | Type of conventional commit | | %_b | Body of conventional commit | | %_f | Footer of conventional commit | | %_o | Origin remote as HTTPS url without '.git' |

Replacements

The replacement elements are always an arrays containing objects with properties searchValue and replaceValue.

The searchValue can be either a String, or an object containing regexBody(required) and regexFlags(optional).

The replaceValue is always a String, which can have regex group placeholder ($1).