Tagged automation

2 posts about automation.

17 Jul

13 min

A changelog you never write: Conventional Commits, Lefthook and git-cliff

How I standardised commit messages and changelogs across a polyglot workspace — Conventional Commits enforced by a shared shell hook, Lefthook to manage the hooks, Keep a Changelog as the format, and git-cliff to generate the changelog from history and keep it current in CI

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17 Jul

8 min

Shipping the release pipeline: git-cliff in GitHub Actions across ten repos

A follow-up to the Conventional Commits post — rolling out automated semantic versioning, changelog updates and GitHub Releases with git-cliff in GitHub Actions across ten repositories, and the gotchas found on the way: release commits polluting the changelog, GITHUB_TOKEN loop protection, and a branch-protected main

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