committed VS git-cliff

I use https://github.com/crate-ci/committed and pre-commit (the python app)

committed just reads commit messages between a range of commits, after resolving refs

For colors, I've found yansi to be great to work with. I then use concolor-control (example) and `concolor-clap (no clap3 support yet, example part 1 and example part 2). As you can see, I also like to organize my colors by the styling role they fill. The only reason I wrapped in that example is its part of the crate's API and didn't want the public API tied to yansi.

While auto-generated changelogs aren't the best, they are better than nothing. Too often I've seen projects without a changelog which is especially annoying when dealing with breaking changes.

I've been considering switching to a changelog generator, either from Conventional Commits or from a folder of files just to avoid merge conflicts with the CHANGELOG file.

If people want enforcement of Conventional Commit, check out https://github.com/crate-ci/committed

git-cliff is a terminal tool that can generate changelog from the Git history by using conventional commits, as well as by using regex-powered parsers and you can even change the changelog template itself by using a configuration file. This tool is a great example of text parsing on the terminal and also uses clap_mangen which generates man pages. Useful for anyone who is serious about looking into making a production-ready terminal tool!

Solutions exist for this. Our company does this with git-cliff. Using conventional commits, any commit labeled with the subject "www" will appear in our public changelog.

This was primarily aimed to work with git-cliff to generate changelogs for GitHub releases, since tagging contributors would include them as contributors for the release, while also ensuring structured changelogs thanks to git-cliff. As of now, it requires a few extra steps to get it working with git-cliff, but the integration should be much better once the PR for post-processors is merged.

It's the first time I see someone combining gitmoji with conventional commits (I use the later now for all my project, to generate my changelogs automatically with with git-cliff.)