Installation

Package Control (recommended)

gem install github-csv-changelog

Manual installation

Clone this repository in command line:

git clone git://github.com/jaclync/github-csv-changelog.git

Generating Access Token

Github API token is required to fetch commits and pull requests. To generate an access token:

Web

• Account Settings -> Personal access tokens
• "Generate new token" under "Personal access tokens"
• For "Token description" you should give it a meaningful name, Example: commit parser
• Under "Select scopes" you can pick "repo" and "user" (these two are required for commits and pull requests)

Save the token securely (e.g. 1Password) and paste the token to token option.

API

Here's a command you can run from your terminal to generate a token via curl:

curl -v -u #{USERNAME} -X POST https://github.com/gitapi/authorizations --data "{\"scopes\":[\"repo\", \"user\"], \"note\": \"Github commit parser.\"}"

Where USERNAME is your Github username. Save the token generated securely and paste the token to token option.

If 2-factor is enabled on your account (strongly recommended), this will return 401 error code, use:

curl -v -u USERNAME -H "X-GitHub-OTP: OTPCODE" -X POST https://github.com/gitapi/authorizations --data "{\"scopes\":[\"repo\", \"user\"], \"note\": \"Github commit parser.\"}"

Where OTPCODE is the code your authenticator app shows you.

Follow script instruction (2-factor only)

If token option is not specified, the script tries generating one for you, given your input on Github username, password, and the One-Time Passcode (OTP) from 2-factor.

Saving token

There are two recommended ways to specify token:

• Save it securely (e.g. 1Password), and paste it in token option
• Set token to environment variable in COMMIT_PARSER_API_TOKEN: export COMMIT_PARSER_API_TOKEN=#{accessToken}

Options

• "--api_token" / "TOKEN" {#token}

  You must enter your GitHub token here, or set it in environment variable under COMMIT_PARSER_API_TOKEN. If not specified, it will prompt you to generate a token for the first time.

• "--repo_owner" / "REPO_OWNER"

  Repo owner where a Github repo has path #{repo owner}/#{repo name}

• "--repo" / "REPO"

  Repo name where a Github repo has path #{repo owner}/#{repo name}

• "--export_CSV_path" / "EXPORT_CSV_PATH"

  Path where CSV file is generated (overwritten if it existed before).

• "--branch_1" / "BRANCH_1"

  The base branch where commits start.

• "--branch_2" / "BRANCH_2"

  The base branch where commits end.

• "--pull_request_regex_by_field" / "PR_REGEX_BY_FIELD"

  This is probably the trickiest of all options. Optionally, a JSON dictionary is provided here to specify how to parse a pull request description via Regex given a CSV field. This highly depends on the extra fields you could extract usually from your Github pull request template. Example:

  --pull_request_regex_by_field='{"What changed": "### Description of change([^?!###]+)", "Test plan": "### Test Plan([^?!###]+)" }'
  

  allows the script to extra two fields ("What changed" and "Test plan") from a pull request given the following pull request template (instruction on how to create one):

  ...
  ### Description of change
  
  /// what changed in this pull request
  
  ### Test Plan
  
  /// how to test changes in this pull request
  ...
  

Usage

ruby github_csv_changelog.rb --apiToken=#{your access token} --repoOwner="repo owner" --repo="repo name" --exportCSVPath="./github_commits.csv" --branch1="release-3.9" --branch2="release-3.10" --pullRequestRegexByField='{"What changed": "### Description of change([^?!###]+)", "QA plan": "### Test Plan([^?!###]+)" }'

Future work

More error handling, e.g.:

• Invalid branch names
• Default CSV export path
• Example usage

Information

Source: https://github.com/jaclync/github-csv-changelog Author: Jaclyn Chen