Changeset

This tool is inspired from Atlassian's changeset CLI.

Changeset allows to easily handle change sets and create changelog entries that are compatible with both semantic versioning and Keep A Changelog.

Installation

To install changeset, run the following command:

go install github.com/desmos-labs/changeset/cmd/changeset@latest

Usage

Initializing the repo

In order to use changeset, the first thing you have to do is initialize the folder that contains your code:

changeset init [github-repo] [version]

You need to specify two arguments:

• github-repo must represent the GitHub repository URL.
  This will later be used to create pull request links
• version must represent the current version of the software.
  This will later be used to determine the next version if needed.

This will generate a file named config.yaml inside a new .changeset folder in your current directory. The next thing you have to do is edit such file to make sure the types and modules arrays contain the type of changes and the supported modules you want to have.

Adding a changeset entry

Once that's done, you can simply add a new changeset entry using

changeset add

This will create an interactive prompt that you can use to fill all the data.

Collecting the changelog

Finally, when you are ready to collect all the changeset entries into a changelog entry you can simply run

changeset collect

This command will get all the current changeset entries and create a CHANGELOG entry. Then, it will replace the Unreleased section of your file with the newly generated entry. The new version number will be computed based on the type and backward compatibility of the changes that have been made following the semantic versioning specifications.

This command supports the following flags

Flag	Default value	Description
--path	$(curdir)/CHANGELOG.md	Path to the CHANGELOG file to update
--version		Version to be used instead of the computed one.
--dry-run	false	If true, preview the result without applying it to the CHANGELOG file