Commit Format

Commit Format is a formatter for commits to paste into a Git Pull Request description.

Installation

1. Run gem install commit_format

Usage

# Print all commits on feature branch since branching off the default branch
# Only works when not on the default branch
commit-format

# Copy the output directly onto the clipboard on macOS
commit-format | pbcopy

# Print the range of formatted commits
commit-format HEAD~1..HEAD

# Prints the commits new in the 'my-feature' branch
commit-format main..my-feature

# Print the last 5 commits
commit-format -n 5

# Print all new commits since selected base branch
commit-format -b main
commit-format -b feature-branch

# Print all commits with text lines joined into a paragraph
commit-format --paragraph
commit-format -p

Features

• Turns each commit subject into a markdown heading.
• Indents all headings in the message body on level lower. Heading level 2 becomes heading level 3, etc.
• Join text lines together as continuous paragraphs for easier reading in Pull Requests. Markdown syntax like code block, blockquotes, lists, tables, etc. are all kept in their original format.

  # For example:
  A commit message with multiple text lines
  across multiple lines.
  
  # Becomes
  A commit message with multiple text lines across multiple line.
  

Development

• Run bundle install
• Install mono.

Tracking changes

Use mono to create a changeset per change.

mono changeset add

Testing

bundle exec rspec

Publishing

mono publish

Resources

• Git is about communication