Ticket-Number prefix in commit messages

[nomike]

My organization requires commit messages to be prefixed with a jira-ticket number so commits typically look like these examples:

[ABC-123] Change implementation
[PRJ-4711] Fix crash in user generation
[XYZ-1] Doc: Document backup restoration

Is there a way to configure git-changelog to still detect the convention-keywords ("change", "doc", "fix", etc.) correctly?

I found an option for specifying a regex to parse version numbers, but I haven't seen anything in the docs about a regex for parsing the commit comment.

[pawamoy]

Hi @nomike, thanks for your question.

There's no declarative way to specify a regex. You could try to implement your own message style in Python.

Alternatively you could try using Git trailers instead of a prefix in the commit message summary (but that means changing your org process so not great).

Finally I recommend you have a look at git-cliff, which might offer such a feature.