You are probably looking for the cli module. Or use one of the plugins if you are already using the tool: grunt/gulp/atom.
Usage
$ npm install --save conventional-changelog-core
var conventionalChangelogCore = require('conventional-changelog-core');
conventionalChangelogCore()
.pipe(process.stdout); // or any writable stream
API
conventionalChangelogCore([options, [context, [gitRawCommitsOpts, [parserOpts, [writerOpts]]]]])
Returns a readable stream.
Note: options.transform
, options.pkg.transform
and writerOpts.transform
are different. If you have a better naming suggestion, please send a PR.
options
config
Type: promise
, function
or object
This should serve as default values for other arguments of conventionalChangelogCore
so you don't need to rewrite the same or similar config across your projects. Any value in this could be overwritten.
If this is a promise (recommended if async), it should resolve with the config.
If this is a function, it expects a node style callback with the config object.
If this is an object, it is the config object. The config object should include context
, gitRawCommitsOpts
, parserOpts
and writerOpts
.
pkg
Type: object
path
Type: string
Default: closest package.json.
The location of your "package.json".
transform
Type: function
Default: pass through.
A function that takes package.json
data as the argument and returns the modified data. Note this is performed before normalizing package.json data. Useful when you need to add a leading 'v' to your version or modify your repository url, etc.
append
Type: boolean
Default: false
Should the log be appended to existing data.
releaseCount
Type: number
Default: 1
How many releases of changelog you want to generate. It counts from the upcoming release. Useful when you forgot to generate any previous changelog. Set to 0
to regenerate all.
debug
Type: function
Default: function() {}
A debug function. EG: console.debug.bind(console)
warn
Type: function
Default: options.debug
A warn function. EG: grunt.verbose.writeln
transform
Type: function
Default: get the version (without leading 'v') from tag and format date.
function(commit, cb)
A transform function that applies after the parser and before the writer.
This is the place to modify the parsed commits.
####### commit
The commit from conventional-commits-parser.
####### cb
Callback when you are done.
####### this
this
arg of through2.
outputUnreleased
Type: boolean
Default: true
if a different version than last release is given. Otherwise false
.
If this value is true
and context.version
equals last release then context.version
will be changed to 'Unreleased'
.
NOTE: You may want to combine this option with releaseCount
set to 0
to always overwrite the whole CHANGELOG. conventional-changelog
only outputs a CHANGELOG but doesn't read any existing one.
lernaPackage
Specify a package in lerna-style monorepo that the CHANGELOG should be generated for.
Lerna tags releases in the format foo-package@1.0.0
and assumes that packages
are stored in the directory structure ./packages/foo-package
.
tagPrefix
Specify a prefix for the git tag that will be taken into account during the comparison.
For instance if your version tag is prefixed by version/
instead of v
you would specify --tagPrefix=version/
context
See the conventional-changelog-writer docs. There are some defaults or changes:
host
Default: normalized host found in package.json
.
version
Default: version found in package.json
.
owner
Default: extracted from normalized package.json
repository.url
field.
repository
Default: extracted from normalized package.json
repository.url
field.
repoUrl
Default: The whole normalized repository url in package.json
.
gitSemverTags
Type: array
All git semver tags found in the repository. You can't overwrite this value.
previousTag
Type: string
Default: previous semver tag or the first commit hash if no previous tag.
currentTag
Type: string
Default: current semver tag or 'v'
+ version if no current tag.
packageData
Type: object
Your package.json
data. You can't overwrite this value.
linkCompare
Type: boolean
Default: true
if previousTag
and currentTag
are truthy.
Should link to the page that compares current tag with previous tag?
gitRawCommitsOpts
See the git-raw-commits docs. There are some defaults:
format
Default: '%B%n-hash-%n%H%n-gitTags-%n%d%n-committerDate-%n%ci'
from
Default: based on options.releaseCount
.
reverse
Default: true
if options.append
is truthy.
debug
Type: function
Default: options.debug
parserOpts
See the conventional-commits-parser docs.
warn
Default: options.warn
writerOpts
See the conventional-changelog-writer docs. There are some defaults:
finalizeContext
Finalize context is used for generating above context.
NOTE: If you overwrite this value the above context defaults will be gone.
debug
Type: function
Default: options.debug
reverse
Default: options.append
doFlush
Default: options.outputUnreleased
Notes for parent modules
This module has options append
and releaseCount
. However, it doesn't read your previous changelog. Reasons being:
- The old logs is just to be appended or prepended to the newly generated logs, which is a very simple thing that could be done in the parent module.
- We want it to be very flexible for the parent module. You could create a readable stream from the file or you could just read the file.
- We want the duty of this module to be very minimum.
So, when you build a parent module, you need to read the old logs and append or prepend to them based on options.append
. However, if options.releaseCount
is 0
you need to ignore any previous logs. Please see conventional-github-releaser as an example.
Arguments passed to conventionalChangelogCore
will be mutated.
License
MIT