grunt-changelog-customizable

A grunt task to generate changelog from git repository. You could provide a start and end tag and it will find all commits between these tags. Or you could only provide end tag (and it will take previous take as start tag) By default if no tag are specified, it will take 2 weeks of commits. See example of generated file here : link Based on grunt-changelog project.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.5

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-changelog-customizable --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-changelog-customizable');

The "changelog_customizable" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named changelog_customizable to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  changelogcustomizable: {
    changelog: {
      options: {
        // Task-specific options go here.
      },
    },
  },
});

Options

options.end

Type: String Default value: null

A string value that is a date or a git tag In case of git tag and if options.start is empty then get previous tag as options.start

options.start

Type: String Default value: null

A string value that is a date or a git tag. Can be empty if options.end is a git tag. In that case previous git tag will be used as start value.

git describe --abbrev=0 tagname^

options.header

Type: String Default value: 'Changelog'

A string value that is put as generated file's header

options.dest

Type: Object Default value: see usage examples

A object to describe destination file

options.type

Type: String Default value: 'dev'

A string to define what kind of changelog to generate. This string should correspond to one of your options.templates regex key (see usage examples) In usage examples we use two different keys, 'dev' and 'release' and each one have a different regex to find commits. If you want to generate all changelog, put 'all' in this property.

options.writeType

Type: String Default value: empty

A string to determine if we add changelog to destination file or if we erase content. Can be :

• empty : replace file content
• "append": insert content to the end of file
• "prepend": insert content to the beginning of file

options.template

Type: String Default value: automatically generated

Defines the global template of generated file. If not specified the default value is automatically generated with options.templates. In most cases you don't really need to explicitly specified a value in this field. It accepts a template like the following :

{{> features}}{{> fixes}}

options.templates

Type: Object Default value: see Usage examples

Defines all templates needed to generate your file.

Usage Examples

Default Options

grunt.initConfig({
  changelogcustomizable: {
    changelog: {
      options: {
        start: null,
        end: null,
        header: 'Changelog',
        dest: {
          dir: './release-notes/',
          fileName: 'changelog',
          extension: 'md'
        },
        type: 'dev',
        templates: {
          features: {
            regex: {
              dev: /^(.*)feature(.*)$/gim,
              release: /^(.*)release(.*)feature(.*)$/gim
            },
            template: '##FEATURE:\n\n{{#if features}}{{#each features}}{{> feature}}{{/each}}{{else}}{{/if}}\n'
          },
          feature: {
            template: '\t{{{this}}}\n'
          },
          fixes: {
            regex: {
              dev: /^(.*)fixes #\d+:?(.*)$/gim,
              release: /^(.*)release(.*)fixes #\d+:?(.*)$/gim
            },
            template: '##FIXES:\n\n{{#if fixes}}{{#each fixes}}{{> fix}}{{/each}}{{else}}{{/if}}\n'
          },
          hotfixes: {
            regex: {
              dev: /^(.*)hotfix #\d+:?(.*)$/gim
            },
            template: '##HOT FIXES:\n\n{{#if hotfixes}}{{#each hotfixes}}{{> fix}}{{/each}}{{else}}{{/if}}\n'
          },
          fix: {
            template: '\t{{{this}}}\n'
          }
        }
      }
    }
});

will generate the following file :

  #Changelog

  ##FEATURE:

    first changelog generation with basic options
    commit readme and configuration files

  ##FIXES:

    first fix
    second fix

Contributing

Any help is welcome :)