Git trailer prompt

This script will provide an easy way to do git commits with changelog trailers.
It will let you choose if you want to provide a changelog commit or a usual commit.
So this would basically replace the step of git commit [...].

Usual commit example:

$ commit
[?] Do you want to create a changelog message (y/N): N

[?] Please provide a commit message: initial commit

Changelog example:

$ commit
[?] Do you want to create a changelog message (y/N): y

[?] Please select a changelog type ans press enter: fixed: Bug fix
   added: New feature
 > fixed: Bug fix
   changed: Feature change
   deprecated: New deprecation
   removed: Feature removal
   security: Security fix
   performance: Performance improvement
   other: Other

[?] Please provide a non-technical changelog message: Fixed the most hated bug

Requirements

• Python3

Installation

Just run

git clone [email protected]:mbrammer/git-trailer-prompt.git && cd git-trailer-prompt && sh ./setup.sh

For unix systems, the setup script should do the rest for you.

If you are running on Windows, you need to do some manual setup.
Follow these steps:

1. Add the commit.py script somewhere you want to store it
2. Pick one of these options:
   • Call it there from your project folder my-git-repo/$ ./path/to/commit.py
   • Add it to you PATH variable to call it globally
   • Create an alias to call it globally (see "Setting up an alias" below)

Usage

Inside your project directory (which obviously should be a Git repo) just run commit.py

Setting up an alias (optional)

If you want to call the script with another command, just create an alias in your bash profile.
Here are some examples:

alias commit='commit.py'
alias git_commit='commit.py'
alias trailer_commit='commit.py'

# For Windows:
alias commit='/path/to/commit.py'