Git Changelog Lib

This is a library for generating a changelog, or releasenotes, from a GIT repository. It can also be run as a standalone program, Gradle plugin, Maven plugin or Jenkins plugin.

It is fully configurable with a Mustache template. That can:

• Be stored to file, like CHANGELOG.md. There are some templates used for testing available here and the results here.
• Be posted to MediaWiki (here is an example)
• Or just be printed to STDOUT

It can integrate with Jira and/or GitHub to retrieve the title of issues.

The changelog of this project is automatically generated with this template.

There are some screenshots here.

Usage

This software can be used:

• With a Gradle plugin.
• With a Maven plugin.
• With a Jenkins plugin.
• With a Bitbucket Server plugin.
• From command line.
• As a library Maven Central.

Here is an example template.

# Git Changelog changelog

Changelog of Git Changelog.

{{#tags}}
## {{name}}
 {{#issues}}
  {{#hasIssue}}
   {{#hasLink}}
### {{name}} [{{issue}}]({{link}}) {{title}} {{#hasIssueType}} *{{issueType}}* {{/hasIssueType}} {{#hasLabels}} {{#labels}} *{{.}}* {{/labels}} {{/hasLabels}}
   {{/hasLink}}
   {{^hasLink}}
### {{name}} {{issue}} {{title}} {{#hasIssueType}} *{{issueType}}* {{/hasIssueType}} {{#hasLabels}} {{#labels}} *{{.}}* {{/labels}} {{/hasLabels}}
   {{/hasLink}}
  {{/hasIssue}}
  {{^hasIssue}}
### {{name}}
  {{/hasIssue}}

  {{#commits}}
**{{{messageTitle}}}**

{{#messageBodyItems}}
 * {{.}} 
{{/messageBodyItems}}

[{{hash}}](https://github.com/tomasbjerre/git-changelog-lib/commit/{{hash}}) {{authorName}} *{{commitTime}}*

  {{/commits}}

 {{/issues}}
{{/tags}}

There are some examples here that are ready to use.

There are also different variations here that are used for testing.

Supplied information

The template is supplied with a datastructure like:

* commits
 - authorName
 - authorEmailAddress
 - commitTime
 - hash
 - hashFull
 - merge (True if this is a merge-commit)
 - message (The full message)
 - messageTitle (Only the first line of the message)
 - messageBody (Everything, except the title)
 * messageBodyItems (List of strings, the lines after the title)
* tags
 - name
 - annotation
 * commits
  - authorName
  - authorEmailAddress
  - commitTime
  - hash
  - hashFull
  - merge (True if this is a merge-commit)
  - message (The full message)
  - messageTitle (Only the first line of the message)
  - messageBody (Everything, except the title)
  * messageBodyItems (List of strings, the lines after the title)
 * authors
  - authorName
  - authrorEmail
  * commits
   - authorName
   - authorEmailAddress
   - commitTime
   - hash
   - hashFull
   - merge (True if this is a merge-commit)
   - message (The full message)
   - messageTitle (Only the first line of the message)
   - messageBody (Everything, except the title)
   * messageBodyItems (List of strings, the lines after the title)
 * issueTypes
  - name (Like GitHub, GitLab, Jira, ...)
  * issues
   - name
   - hasIssue
   - issue
   - hasLink
   - link
   - hasTitle
   - title
   - hasIssueType
   - issueType
   - hasLabels
   - labels
   * commits
    - authorName
    - authorEmailAddress
    - commitTime
    - hash
    - hashFull
    - merge (True if this is a merge-commit)
    - message (The full message)
    - messageTitle (Only the first line of the message)
    - messageBody (Everything, except the title)
    * messageBodyItems (List of strings, the lines after the title)
   * authors
    - authorName
    - authrorEmail
    * commits
     - authorName
     - authorEmailAddress
     - commitTime
     - hash
     - hashFull
     - merge (True if this is a merge-commit)
     - message (The full message)
     - messageTitle (Only the first line of the message)
     - messageBody (Everything, except the title)
     * messageBodyItems (List of strings, the lines after the title)
 * issues
  - name
  - hasIssue
  - issue
  - hasLink
  - link
  - hasTitle
  - title
  - hasIssueType
  - issueType
  - hasLabels
  - labels
  * commits
   - authorName
   - authorEmailAddress
   - commitTime
   - hash
   - hashFull
   - merge (True if this is a merge-commit)
   - message (The full message)
   - messageTitle (Only the first line of the message)
   - messageBody (Everything, except the title)
   * messageBodyItems (List of strings, the lines after the title)
  * authors
   - authorName
   - authrorEmail
   * commits
    - authorName
    - authorEmailAddress
    - commitTime
    - hash
    - hashFull
    - merge (True if this is a merge-commit)
    - message (The full message)
    - messageTitle (Only the first line of the message)
    - messageBody (Everything, except the title)
    * messageBodyItems (List of strings, the lines after the title)
* authors
 - authorName
 - authrorEmail
 * commits
  - authorName
  - authorEmailAddress
  - commitTime
  - hash
  - hashFull
  - merge (True if this is a merge-commit)
  - message (The full message)
  - messageTitle (Only the first line of the message)
  - messageBody (Everything, except the title)
  * messageBodyItems (List of strings, the lines after the title)
* issues
 - name
 - hasIssue
 - issue
 - hasLink
 - link
 - hasTitle
 - title
 - hasIssueType
 - issueType
 - hasLabels
 - labels
 * commits
  - authorName
  - authorEmailAddress
  - commitTime
  - hash
  - hashFull
  - merge (True if this is a merge-commit)
  - message (The full message)
  - messageTitle (Only the first line of the message)
  - messageBody (Everything, except the title)
  * messageBodyItems (List of strings, the lines after the title)
 * authors
  - authorName
  - authrorEmail
  * commits
   - authorName
   - authorEmailAddress
   - commitTime
   - hash
   - hashFull
   - merge (True if this is a merge-commit)
   - message (The full message)
   - messageTitle (Only the first line of the message)
   - messageBody (Everything, except the title)
   * messageBodyItems (List of strings, the lines after the title)

Library

It has a builder for creating the changelog.

  gitChangelogApiBuilder()
   .withFromCommit(ZERO_COMMIT)
   .withToRef("refs/heads/master")
   .withTemplatePath("changelog.mustache")
   .toFile("CHANGELOG.md");

It can also create releasenotes. If you are using git flow it may look like this.

  gitChangelogApiBuilder()
   .withFromRef("refs/heads/dev")
   .withToRef("refs/heads/master")
   .withTemplatePath("releasenotes.mustache")
   .toStdout();

A page can be created in MediaWiki like this.

 .toMediaWiki(
  "username",
  "password",
  "http://host/mediawiki",
  "Title of page");

Settings can be supplied with a JSON config (documented here).

MediaWiki

The library can create a wiki page in MediaWiki. To do this, you must enable the API in MediaWiki in mediawiki/LocalSettings.php by adding:

$wgEnableAPI = true;
$wgEnableWriteAPI = true;

Developer instructions

To build the code, have a look at .travis.yml.

To do a release you need to do ./gradlew release and release the artifact from staging. More information here.