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Package readmegen
Short Description Readme file / doc generator. It uses VCS logs as a source of information. It also links commits with Github or Jira issues trackers.
License MIT
Informations about the package readmegen
ReadmeGen
Notice: The package currently supports only GIT and the *.md output files.
Notice 2: Don't forget to update config file readmegen.yml
with your parameters.
Installation
Global installation (recommended)
You can read more about global installation in the composer docs.
Local installation
Windows installation
Make sure the Windows PATH
variable contains the path to the composer bin dir:
Restart any shell terminal you want to use for changes to take effect.
Usage
This package is intended to be used as an executable script, not a library you would include in your project. Assuming you installed ReadmeGen globally, to update your changelog file, simply run:
For example:
This tells the script to generate a changelog update named 1.13.0
and that it should scan the log since tag 1.12.0
up to 1.13.0
. No earlier (or latter) commits will be taken into consideration. ReadmeGen will create a CHANGELOG.md file and inject the generated log *after* the
#Changelog` line.
If you want to generate the changelog from a specific tag (or commit checksum) up to the latest commit (HEAD
) just omit the --to
argument:
You can also specify the breakpoint in the readmegen.yml
config file so the command will be even cleaner:
Message format
ReadmeGen will search for messages that start with a specific keyword. These keywords tell the script to which group the commit should be appended. The message groups can be overwritten.
For example - the default configuration supports four types of commits: Features, Bugfixes, Documentation, Design, Performance, Chore and Refactoring. The commit will be appended to a certain group only if it starts with a specific word. The default config allows two keywords for bugfixes: bugfix
and fix
. This means, that for a message to be appended to the Bugfix group it has to start with either bugfix: blabla
or Fix: foo bar
(notice the colon :
sign - it has to be right after the keyword). The keywords are case insensitive.
All commits that do not fit into any of the groups will be ignored (we don't want merges and stuff like that in the changelog).
Grouping commits
Each commit that fits into a group will be grouped (yeah, that sounds silly). Groups will be printed out in the order they appear in the config file, so if you have Features
and Bugfixes
, this is the order they will appear in the changelog:
You can override the groups in your custom config file (details below).
Link patterns
ReadmeGen can link issues to a issue tracker - all numbers starting with #
or KEY-
will be linked to a website defined in the config under the issue_tracker_pattern
key. If a commit message has a string #1234
or KEY-1234
in it, it will be converted to a link targeting the issue tracker.
Local config
The default config holds the definitions of commit groups and the issue link pattern. It also specifies which VCS to use and the type of the output file. You can override these settings (project-wide) by creating a readmegen.yml
file in the root dir of your project. When ReadmeGen will be run it will check if this file exists and merge the settings accordingly.
The default readmegen.yml
config looks like this:
Each of the message_groups
key is the name of the group that will be put in the changelog. The values inside the group are the keywords the commit must start with (followed by the colon :
sign) to be appended to that group.
issue_tracker_key= /(KEY-[0-9]+)/
is the key used by your Issues Tracker (i.e. JIRA, Github, or anything else).
The way it works depends on your Issue Tracker service. Here some examples :
- For JIRA : replace
KEY
by your project key - For Github : replace
KEY-
by#
Release number
ReadmeGen requires a release number (--release
) to be provided. This will be the title of the generated changelog.
Breakpoint
By default the changes will go onto the beginning of the changelog file. You can though specify a "breakpoint" beneath which these changes should be appended. Usually, you'll have some "intro" in you changelog, and the changes listed below. You don't want the script to push the changes on top of the file, but below a certain line. You can specify this line in the readmegen.yml
config file or using the --break
argument.
For example:
The script will append the changes below the line that contains the #Changelog
phrase. This should be the only phrase in this line. If you use the CLI argument method (--break
), the breakpoint must not contain spaces. Thus you are encouraged to use the config method - you can use spaces there, as shown in the default config.
ReadmeGen will search for the # Changelog
breakpoint by default. If the breakpoint phrase is not found, the output will go onto the beginning of the changelog file.
Example commits
Here are some example commit messages that will be grabbed by ReadmeGen (with the default config):
Changelog
1.2.3
(2018-08-20)
Bugfixes
- Correct wrong local installation package
Chore
- Update dependency ulrichsg/getopt-php from v2 to v3
- Update dependency symfony/yaml from v3 to v4
1.2.0
(2018-07-16)
Features
- Update config file
- Add JIRA issue tracker support
Documentation
- Update Readme & License