girokmoji 0.6.0
Change log creator for gitmoji logs
Requires Python: >=3.10
Keywords: changelog, ci, emoji, git, gitmoji, release, vcs

# Girokmoji

![Mutation Survivability](https://img.shields.io/badge/Mutation%20Survivability-26%25-brightgreen)

**Automatic changelog generator with built-in SemVer 2.0 tagging.**

Turn your Gitmoji commits into release notes and version bumps. Girokmoji relies solely on `pygit2` and runs anywhere
`libgit2` is available.

We use minimum dependencies. Currently, only pygit2, which requires no runtime
`git` executable, good enough binary distributions, is used.

## Designed for General Use

### Pipeline as a trigger

Pipelines, such as SCM provided ones (e.g., GitHub Actions), dedicated solutions
(e.g., Jenkins) are best when you use it as a ***"trigger"***.

### Do a single thing

Release notes and tagging with Gitmoji flair.

Powered by a SemVer 2.0 parser, the `release` command tags your repo and outputs the changelog.
Run it with `uvx` in CI for reproducible builds.

## Basic use case

### Semantic Version Release

#### with `uv` (recommended, especially for release pipelines)

```bash
uvx --from "girokmoji@latest" girokmoji release YOU_PROJECT_NAME --bump patch --repo-dir . > release.md
```

### Generate Release Note

#### with `uv` (recommended, especially for release pipelines)

```bash
uvx --from "girokmoji@latest" girokmoji YOUR_PROJECT_NAME 2025-02-10 your_project_repo_dir v0.1.0 v0.5.2 > release_note.md
```

You can control how the commit range is determined with `--range`:

```bash
# Auto (default): direct when linear, common-base when diverged
girokmoji YOUR_PROJECT_NAME 2025-02-10 . v1.2.3 v1.3.0 --range auto

# Force raw tail..head range
girokmoji YOUR_PROJECT_NAME 2025-02-10 . v1.2.3 v1.3.0 --range direct

# Force merge-base..head (recommended for hotfix vs latest on different lines)
girokmoji YOUR_PROJECT_NAME 2025-02-10 . v1.2.3-hotfix v1.3.0 --range common-base

# Require linear history and fail if not
girokmoji YOUR_PROJECT_NAME 2025-02-10 . v1.2.3 v1.3.0 --strict-ancestor
```

Notes:

- Informational notices about range auto-detection (e.g., switching to common-base, or head-only fallback) are printed to stderr. The generated changelog is written to stdout, so you can safely redirect stdout to a file without capturing notices.

### Go With Classic Way

Clone

```bash
git clone https://github.com/KMilhan/girokmoji.git
```

#### with isolated `pip`

```bash
python -m girokmoji YOUR_PROJECT_NAME 2025-02-10 your_project_repo_dir v0.1.0 v0.5.2 > release_note.md
```

or

```bash
girokmoji YOUR_PROJECT_NAME 2025-02-10 your_project_repo_dir v0.1.0 v0.5.2 > release_note.md
```

**Note**: Please change repository url with your repository url. Also, clone with enough depth, so `libgit2` can
traverse to the past tag.

### Installation

#### with `uv` (recommended for development)

Install [`uv`](https://github.com/astral-sh/uv) and create a virtual
environment:

```bash
uv pip install girokmoji
```

The last command installs this package together with development tools such as
`pytest`. Use `uv pip` inside the environment whenever you need to add more
packages.

#### with isolated `pip`

If you do not use `uv`, you can install the project with plain `pip` in an
already isolated environment:

```bash
pip install girokmoji
```

### Show version

```bash
girokmoji --version
```

### GitHub Release payload

To create JSON payload for GitHub Release:

```bash
girokmoji YOUR_PROJECT_NAME 2025-02-10 your_project_repo_dir v0.1.0 v0.5.2 --github-payload > release.json
```

### Automated release helper

To bump the project version using the built-in versioning (fully compliant with
Semantic Versioning 2.0) and output the changelog generated by **girokmoji** in
one go:

```bash
girokmoji release YOUR_PROJECT_NAME --bump patch --repo-dir . > release.md
```

The `release` command also accepts range-related flags which apply to the generated diff between the last tag and the new tag:

```bash
# Default auto behavior (linear histories use direct)
girokmoji release YOUR_PROJECT_NAME --bump patch --repo-dir . --range auto

# Enforce linear history if desired
girokmoji release YOUR_PROJECT_NAME --bump minor --repo-dir . --strict-ancestor

# Quiet or verbose notices
girokmoji release YOUR_PROJECT_NAME --bump patch --repo-dir . --quiet
girokmoji release YOUR_PROJECT_NAME --bump patch --repo-dir . --verbose
```

### Tag selection and hotpatch handling

By default, girokmoji determines the previous tag (tail) for generating release notes and bumping versions using only tags that are reachable from the current HEAD.

- Tail tag selection:
  - Only tags whose target commit is an ancestor of HEAD are considered.
  - Among those, the largest SemVer tag is chosen.
- Tag formats:
  - Both with or without a leading "v" are accepted (e.g., v1.2.3 or 1.2.3).
  - Both annotated and lightweight tags are supported.

Hotpatch/global floor:

- To avoid version regressions when a larger SemVer tag exists on another branch (e.g., a hotpatch), the bump baseline uses the maximum of:
  - The last reachable SemVer from HEAD, and
  - The global maximum SemVer tag across the repository.
- Example: If HEAD’s reachable max is v1.2.3 but there is a v2.0.0 tag on a different branch, a patch bump will produce v2.0.1 by default.
- Library usage (Python API) can opt out of this behavior with:
  - auto_release(..., version_floor_scope="reachable") to base the bump only on the reachable tag.

This change affects how the previous tag is chosen and how the new version is computed, while the commit range selection (auto/direct/common-base) continues to work as documented below.

### Range Modes (commit selection)

- `auto` (default):
  - Uses `tail..head` when the tail is an ancestor of head (linear history).
  - Otherwise uses `merge-base(tail, head)..head`.
  - If there is no common base, shows commits reachable from `head` only.
- `direct`: Always `tail..head`.
- `common-base`: Always `merge-base(tail, head)..head` (falls back to head-only when no base).

Flags and behavior:

- `--range` / `--range-mode {auto,direct,common-base}`
- `--strict-ancestor`: fail if refs diverge (tail is not ancestor of head)
- `--quiet`: suppress informational notices on stderr
- `--verbose`: print chosen mode and resolved SHAs to stderr

Examples:

```bash
# Notes for a mainline release since the previous mainline tag
girokmoji MyProj 2025-08-17 . v1.2.3 v1.3.0 --range auto

# Notes comparing a hotfix tag and the latest tag on main
girokmoji MyProj 2025-08-17 . v1.2.3-hotfix v1.3.0 --range auto

# Enforce linear history in CI
girokmoji MyProj 2025-08-17 . v1.2.3 v1.3.0 --strict-ancestor
```

## Example

For generated release note, go [EXAMPLE.md](./EXAMPLE.md)

## Development and Testing

The recommended workflow for local development uses `uv` for dependency
management. `uv` creates an isolated virtual environment and installs the
required packages using its own resolver.

```bash
# create a virtual environment in `.venv`
uv venv

# install main and development dependencies
uv sync

# run the test suite
uv run pytest
```

See [multiline commit test](docs/multiline_commit_test.md) for multi-line commit examples and how commits are grouped in
release notes.

### Mutation testing

We use mutmut for mutation testing. For stability, subprocess-based CLI/E2E tests are excluded during mutation runs via pytest markers:

- Markers:
  - `@pytest.mark.cli` for tests that invoke the CLI in a separate Python process.
  - Module-level `pytestmark = pytest.mark.e2e` for end-to-end tests.
- Runner filter (configured in `pyproject.toml`):
  - `pytest -q -m 'not e2e and not cli'`
  - `tests_dir = ["tests"]` so all tests are discovered but filtered by markers.

Commands:

```bash
# run the full test suite normally (includes cli/e2e)
uv run pytest -q

# run mutation tests (excludes cli/e2e via marker filter)
uv run mutmut run

# show surviving mutants
uv run mutmut results
```

Make targets are also available:

```bash
make mutation
make mutation-results
```

Notes:

- Regular pytest remains unchanged and continues to run the full suite, including CLI/E2E.
- Mutation runs intentionally skip CLI/E2E to avoid subprocess-related instability during mutmut’s stats/listing phase.
- If you need to experiment with including CLI/E2E in mutation, adjust the runner filter in `pyproject.toml` temporarily.

## Continuous Integration

A typical pipeline installs `uv`, syncs dependencies and runs girokmoji via `uvx`:

```yaml
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
  with:
    fetch-depth: 0
- uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v5
- run: uv pip install .
- run: pytest
- run: uvx --from "girokmoji@latest" girokmoji release MyProject --bump patch --repo-dir .
```

## Publishing to PyPI

The "Publish Python Package to PyPI" workflow can be dispatched manually. Provide the
`tag` input to select which release tag should be built and uploaded. The workflow
checks out the chosen tag, runs tests, builds the package and then deploys it to PyPI.