Generate a changelog from individual snippets

Create version info files based on the latest changelog entry.

• Installation
• Usage
  • Info
  • Create
    • Snippet
    • Changelog
  • Parse
• Contributing
  • Setup
  • Testing
• Credits

[<PYTHON> -m] pip[3] install [--user] [--upgrade] snippets2changelog

Print informations about snippets2changelog

changelog-generator info

Create a new snippet with the given name at the specified snippets folder

changelog-generator create example_snippets/123.md

Short description: My example snippet
Choose from: ['bugfix', 'feature', 'breaking']
Type of change: feature
Choose from: ['internal', 'external', 'all']
Scope of change: external
Affected users (default all): testers

## My example snippet
<!--
type: feature
scope: external
affected: testers, users
-->

TBD

Create or update a changelog with all snippets. New changelog will be named <OLD_CHANGELOG_NAME.new>

changelog-generator changelog changelog.md --snippets=.snippets

Parse an existing snippet file and return the data as JSON without indentation

changelog-generator parse example_snippets/123.md \
  --indent=4

{
    "type": "feature",
    "scope": [
        "external"
    ],
    "affected": [
        "testers",
        "users"
    ],
    "title": "My example snippet",
    "details": "\n\nTBD\n"
}

For active development you need to have poetry and pre-commit installed

python3 -m pip install --upgrade --user poetry pre-commit
git clone https://github.com/brainelectronics/snippets2changelog.git
cd snippets2changelog
pre-commit install
poetry install

# run all tests
poetry run coverage run -m pytest -v

# run only one specific tests
poetry run coverage run -m pytest -v -k "test_read_save_json"

Generate the coverage files with

python create_report_dirs.py
coverage html

The coverage report is placed at reports/coverage/html/index.html

A big thank you to the creators and maintainers of SemVer.org for their documentation and regex example