feature: per directory changelog ?

[DexterMagnific]

Hello,

Would it be easy to add the ability to generate changelogs for specific directories in the repo ?
The rationale behind this is that our repo is organized as a "plugins" repository and we would like to know the changes specific to each one, in addition to the current changelog that contains everything.

Thank you

[pawamoy]

Hello, thanks for the request 🙂

That's an interesting use-case. I suppose that you could filter commits based on what files they touched, that is if we provided some kind of hooks to do that 🤔 I'll think about it 🙂 Always wanted to allow hooking into the Commit objects anyway, to allow inferring or modifying data.

To answer your question, it would not be easy or trivial. But this is doable.

Also, have a look at git-cliff, maybe they have such a feature already!

[DexterMagnific]

If you're using a form of 'git log' to get the list of commits, then 'git log

' will only list the commits that affect the given subdirectory. Maybe supporting the subdir as an argument would help.

[DexterMagnific]

In https://github.com/pawamoy/git-changelog/blob/main/src/git_changelog/build.py#L339, you can add a new arg for the subdir for example.

[pawamoy]

will only list the commits that affect the given subdirectory

Ah that's right, thanks! Then it should be easy to implement yes :)