How to generate a changelog?

[Lekesoldat]

Hi!

How can I generate a changelog when i've used the czg cli?
We're using some custom scopes, and tools like standard-changelog and conventional-changelog-cli does not seem to recognize the commits with custom scopes. How can i

1. Get detectable, standard, scopes into the czg cli? My custom scope can perhaps be moved to the commit body instead.
   or
2. Create a changelog with custom scopes?

I run a global install of czg cli. Our projects run accross node, java, scala and react projects.

Our config is:

const { execSync } = require('child_process');

// Get the current branch name
const branchName = execSync('git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD').toString().trim();

// Extract the ETU-XXXXX part
const etuPartMatch = branchName.match(/ETU-\d+/);
const etuPart = etuPartMatch ? etuPartMatch[0] : null;

module.exports = {
  rules: {
    'subject-min-length': [2, 'always', 2],
    'subject-empty': [2, 'never']
  },
  prompt: {
    themeColorCode: '38;5;043',
    scopes: etuPart ? [{ name: etuPart }] : undefined,
    allowCustomScopes: true,
    allowEmptyScopes: true,
    skipQuestions: ['footer', 'footerPrefix']
 }
};

Thank you in advance!

[Zhengqbbb]

tools like standard-changelog and conventional-changelog-cli does not seem to recognize the commits with custom scopes.

It shouldn't be. czg follows the standard Conventional Commits
So czg can be recognized by most changelog tools
https://github.com/Zhengqbbb/cz-git/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

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cz-git/package.json

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"release:changelog": "conventional-changelog -p angular -i CHANGELOG.md -s && pnpm run -r --stream release:changelog",

cz-git/.x-cmd/release

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	pnpm bumpp "$version" \
	package.json packages/*/package.json packages/@cz-git/*/package.json \
	--execute="pnpm run release" \
	--commit "build: :bookmark: publish v%s" \
	--all --tag --push && \

[Lekesoldat]

Thanks for your reply! How can i populate the scopes with common, recognizable scopes? I'll put our custom tag as a part of the commit message instead.

EDIT: I believe what broke our changelogs were the use of hyphens in the scope? Somehow that did not work, but when i manually added scopes like 'config', 'frontend', 'server', ut seemed to work. Or perhaps it was due to XXXX in being numbers. A tag would look like ETU-12345.