Add commits to release draft

[dcastil]

Hi @toolmantim, thanks for this great app!

It would be nice to be able to add commits to the triggerable branch to the release as well. This would be especially helpful for small or young projects.

For example a boolean property track-commits could be added to the config to enable the functionality. Then the message according to change-template is created with $TITLE set to the commit title and $NUMBER set to the commit hash.

I might be able to work on this on my own if I find time for it. Just want to find out if this is desired.

[toolmantim]

Sounds like a useful option for some peeps!

Perhaps we have new options and new variables? $COMMITS for example?

[dcastil]

But then it isn't ordered chronologically anymore. I'd like to treat commits the same as PRs and don't separate them.

So the draft looks like this:

## What's Changed

* First PR (#<number>)
* Some commit (<hash>)
* Second PR (#<number>)

[toolmantim]

I see! Cool, that makes sense. I wonder if "include" is a better word than "track" for the option? Perhaps include-all-commits: true?

[dcastil]

Yes, that sounds good! 👍

But I just realised that commits would need its own template as the $NUMBER variable for a PR is likely to be prepended by a # whereas a commit hash isn't.

[pkiv]

Just bumping this request, I think this would be really handy!

[caesay]

Ditto, this would be amazing

[jetersen]

see #552 as well.

How would you support categorization of commits?

[caesay]

Looks like these discussions should get merged and this issue should be closed. I agree with the comments at #552 - grouping up into a default category (eg. Other) and allowing the commit message to optionally pick a category using some predetermined syntax.

If a category "Bug Fixes" has the label "bug", and the commit message is "bug: Fixed Blah" it could be automatically grouped into this category.

[mehdihadeli]

google-github-actions/release-please-action do this with conventional commits and categorize them based on the conventional commits type.