gitlab_changelog plugin

This project is a fastlane plugin. To get started with fastlane-plugin-gitlab_changelog, add it to your project by running:

fastlane add_plugin gitlab_changelog

Get commit changelog using GitLab API

Plugin is particularly useful if you use Shallow Cloning and have small number, like GIT_DEPTH: "1", setting in your GitLab CI config.

In such case, Fastlane's native changelog_from_git_commits action is not helpful, because CI machine does not have a full git history to construct a changelog.

This plugin resolves latest release branch using git ls-remote (always available).

git ls-remote --sort='v:refname' --heads origin refs/heads/release/*

refs/heads/release/4.267.0
refs/heads/release/4.269.0
refs/heads/release/4.269.1
refs/heads/release/4.270.0
refs/heads/release/4.270.1

And then, fetches a changelog (JSON) between the current branch and the latest release branch using GitLab API.

In a case then CI is on release branch currently - a changelog between current and previous release branches is constructed.

change_log = gitlab_changelog(
    current_branch: "develop",
    compare_branch_prefix: "release",
    gitlab_API_baseURL: "http://git.yourcompany.net/api/v4",
    gitlab_project_id: "123",
    gitlab_API_token: "secret_gitlab_token"
  )

Params:

• current_branch : Actions.git_branch or ENV['CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME'] (default)
• compare_branch_prefix : default is release to compare against release/*.*.* branches
• gitlab_API_baseURL : a root URL for your GitLab API
• gitlab_project_id : ENV['CI_PROJECT_ID'] (default)
• gitlab_API_token : Create a GitLab API Token and define it as a variable on your CI environment like ENV['MY_GITLAB_API_TOKEN']

Output: Fetching changeLog from: release/4.270.1 to: develop (GET http://git.yourcompany.net/api/v4/projects/123/repository/compare)

DEV0001 Feature 2 (Thom Yorke) 2019-12-31
DEV0002 Feature 1 (Jonny Greenwood) 2019-12-30

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