Changelog missing body and footer information

[jlanzarotta]

Hello,
Commitizen is a great tool thanks for creating it. I have a question related to creating a changelog. I would like to have the information enter into the "body" and "footer" prompts added to our changelog file. Is there a way to do that?

Thanks,

MyCommitizen.txt

[woile]

There's currently no way to add body and footer. Because there's no standard as of how to parse or what to parse. If you use Conventional Commits, only the BREAKING CHANGE: content in the body will be parsed.

In order to parse more information from the body/footer, you could implement a custom commitizen, see: https://commitizen-tools.github.io/commitizen/customization/#custom-changelog-generator

For example, this cz rule will include the commit body:

from commitizen.cz.base import BaseCommitizen
from commitizen import git

class NewCommitizen(BaseCommitizen):

    def changelog_message_builder_hook(self, parsed_message: dict, commit: git.GitCommit) -> dict:
        m = parsed_message["message"]
        body = commit.body
        parsed_message["message"] = f"{m}\n{body}"
        return parsed_message

You can easily bootstrap a new commitizen rile by using the template:
https://github.com/commitizen-tools/commitizen_cz_template

Regards