Git-cliff – Generate changelog files from the Git history

Re:Git-cliff – Generate changelog files from the Git history by danfritz on Sunday September 05, 2021 @11:36AM (#28425096)

Cool, does it also work when you squash PR? One thing that annoys me about conventional commit is that they assume merge or rebass but if you squash features / bugs it's a one line change in your history. By default the auto generated message of a squash does not conform conventional commit

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Re:Git-cliff – Generate changelog files from the Git history by 3np on Sunday September 05, 2021 @11:39AM (#28425126)

It’s good practice to review that you have an appropriate commit message in squashed commits before pushing.

not sure what you mean by “auto generated message” - “squash” during interactive rebase will by default ask you to edit the commit message before generating the commit, prefilled with concatenation of messages of all the squashed commits.

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Re:Git-cliff – Generate changelog files from the Git history by nerdponx on Sunday September 05, 2021 @11:58AM (#28425275)

How many people actually customize that message?

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Re:Git-cliff – Generate changelog files from the Git history by 3np on Sunday September 05, 2021 @12:13PM (#28425387)

At the very least, anyone contributing to a repo with contribution guidelines around commit message format is expected to.

Anyone who cares about others reading the commit history, should.

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