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# auto-changie
github action to run changie and generate changelog with automatic numbering
Github action to run [changie](https://changie.dev/) and generate changelog with automatic numbering
## How it works
These are the step done by this composite action :
- Setup node with `inputs.node-version`
- Setup changie cli through npm with `inputs.changie-version`
- Initialize changie subtree if not already exist (base on `.changie.yaml` existance)
- Retrieve all commit since last commit contained in last changie release version's file, or since beginning if not release have been done yet.
- Create a changie entry of type Changed for each commit of previous step
- Batch all change in a new automatic version
- Merge all version and update global `CHANGELOG.md` file
## Usage example
```yaml
name: Changelog generator
on:
push:
branches:
- main
- master
jobs:
build:
if: "contains(github.event.head_commit.message, 'CI') != true"
steps:
- uses: action/checkout@<latest_tag>
with:
fetch-depth: 0
fetch-tags: false
# ... do some CI habitual stuff
- uses: RouxAntoine/auto-changie@<latest_tag>
- name: Push changelog
uses: stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action@<latest_tag>
with:
commit_message: "CI: Push updated changelog"
```
This pipeline clone code update changelog with auto-changie and push it to main thanks to [git-auto-commit-action](https://github.com/stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action).
> Notice the use of `fetch-depth: 0` should be set.
> Indeed without this not all commit are retrieve and auto-changie fail to find all commit updated since previous run.