Preset: read version from file

Hello, I have found out about gitmoji-changelog at https://dev.to/yvonnickfrin/gitmoji-changelog-v2-is-out-51hb and really like the idea

I would like to use it for my project https://github.com/jmfayard/gradle-dependencies-plugins

To make it easy to setup the CI, my versions are in a simple file text

$ cat refreshVersions/plugins_version.txt
0.8.6
$ cat dependencies/plugins_version.txt
0.5.1

(that would be two changelogs, which is fine)

Not terribly complicated. The thing is that my javascript skills are closed to undefined so I would be really grateful if someone can write the corresponding preset for me

[frinyvonnick]

Ok so you want a sort of standalone preset that works regardless of the technology. Actually gitmoji-changelog use the .git folder to get commits so it doesn’t take in account the current folder to filter commits. It is not monorepo friendly which is silly since gitmoji-changelog is a monorepo 😂

We have two issues here:

• Create a generic preset
• gitmoji-changelog should filter commits if the current path is not project root

Thank you for your answers!

[frinyvonnick]

@jmfayard I created a generic preset. You can test it with the canary version.

Here is how to use the generic preset:

1. Create a file .gitmoji-changelogrc at the project root with the following content

{
  "project": {
    "name": "gradle-dependencies-plugins",
    "description": "Gradle dependencies with IDE integration and lookup for available updates",
    "version": "0.8.3"
  }
}

1. Call gitmoji-changelog with the preset option set to generic

npx gitmoji-changelog@canary --preset generic

Hope it will help!

I’ll publish it as soon as possible.