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@szokeasaurusrex szokeasaurusrex commented Dec 4, 2025

Changelog Entry

  • Add support for custom changelog entries from PR descriptions
  • And with support for multiple entries
    • and nested items

Description

Implement the ability to override changelog entries using a "Changelog Entry" section in the PR description.

This allows PR authors to provide more detailed, user-facing release notes directly within the PR body, improving clarity and flexibility for changelog generation. If no such section is present, the PR title is used as the changelog entry as before.

How it works

Add a ## Changelog Entry section to your PR description with a list of items:

## Changelog Entry

- First custom changelog entry
- Second custom changelog entry (optional nested content)

Each bullet point becomes a separate changelog entry, allowing a single PR to contribute multiple items to the changelog. This is useful for PRs that contain multiple user-facing changes.

Example

If your PR title is "refactor: internal changes and add new feature", but you want the changelog to show:

  • Add support for X
  • Improve performance of Y

Simply add a ## Changelog Entry section as shown above.

This PR itself demonstrates the feature - look at the changelog preview comment to see how the custom entry is rendered!

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@cursor update the PR title to actually describe the changes

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Based on the implemented changes, here's a better PR title that accurately describes what this PR does:

Suggested PR Title:

feat: Allow changelog entry to be overridden by PR description section

Or alternatively:

feat: Support custom changelog entries via "Changelog Entry" section in PR descriptions

Both options clearly convey that this PR:

  1. Adds a new feature (using the feat: prefix following conventional commits)
  2. Allows PR authors to override the default changelog entry
  3. Uses a specific section in the PR description to achieve this

The first option is more concise while the second provides slightly more detail about the mechanism. Either would be a significant improvement over "Respond to github message"!

Would you like me to suggest any other variations, or would one of these work for you?


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@szokeasaurusrex szokeasaurusrex changed the title Respond to github message feat: Allow changelog entry to be overridden by PR description section Dec 4, 2025
Co-authored-by: daniel.szoke <daniel.szoke@sentry.io>
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@cursor fix the lints

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Perfect! All linter warnings have been fixed. ✅

What I Fixed

Replaced all 26 instances of non-null assertion operator (!) in the test file with proper type guards using if (result) checks. This is the safer TypeScript pattern that the linter prefers.

Before:

expect(result![0].text).toBe('...');

After:

expect(result).not.toBeNull();
if (result) {
  expect(result[0].text).toBe('...');
}

Verification

  • Linter: Clean - no errors or warnings
  • Tests: All 449 tests passing
  • Type safety: Improved with proper null checks

The code is now ready for review with no linting issues!


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Co-authored-by: daniel.szoke <daniel.szoke@sentry.io>
@BYK BYK self-requested a review December 26, 2025 18:55
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@BYK BYK marked this pull request as ready for review December 26, 2025 18:55
BYK and others added 3 commits December 26, 2025 20:56
Resolve merge conflicts with master, update documentation, and fix
related tests to integrate new features and the new docs site.

The branch had conflicts due to a major documentation site migration
(from Jekyll to Astro/Starlight) and the introduction of new GitHub
Actions in `master`. This PR resolves these conflicts, updates the
`README.md` to point to the new docs site, migrates detailed changelog
documentation, and ensures all tests pass with the merged changes.

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🟡 Minor (new features)

📋 Changelog Preview

This is how your changes will appear in the changelog.
Entries from this PR are highlighted with a left border (blockquote style).


New Features ✨

Changelog

  • feat(changelog): Strip commit patterns from changelog entries by @BYK in #674

  • Add support for custom changelog entries from PR descriptions by @szokeasaurusrex in #648

  • And with support for multiple entries by @szokeasaurusrex in #648

    • and nested items
  • feat(changelog): Add changelog preview action and CLI command by @BYK in #669

  • feat(actions): Make release workflow reusable for external repos by @BYK in #672

  • feat(aws-lambda): Add version templating for layer names by @BYK in #678

Bug Fixes 🐛

Changelog

  • fix(changelog): Disable author mentions in PR preview comments by @BYK in #684

  • fix(changelog): Handle reverts in changelog and version inference by @BYK in #677

  • fix(changelog): Use PR-specific bump type in preview by @BYK in #676

  • fix(github): Clean up orphaned draft releases on publish failure by @BYK in #681

  • fix(publish): Fail early on dirty git repository by @BYK in #683

Documentation 📚

  • docs: New documentation site! by @BYK in #668

Other


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PR Preview Action v1.7.0
Preview removed because the pull request was closed.
2025-12-27 09:17 UTC

- Fix TypeScript error in test mock with 'as any'
- Fix bug where all PR bodies were being included in changelog entries
- Body should only be included when #body-in-changelog magic word is present
BYK and others added 10 commits December 27, 2025 01:31
…n categorized commits

Previously, categorized commits would not check the commit message body
for the #body-in-changelog magic word, only the PR body. This was
inconsistent with uncategorized commits (leftovers) which correctly
checked both. Now both code paths behave consistently.
- Test that PR body is NOT included without magic word (both categorized and uncategorized)
- Test that PR body IS included with magic word
- Test that commit body is used as fallback for magic word in both categorized and uncategorized commits
- Test that PR body takes precedence over commit body when both have magic word
- Test consistency between categorized and uncategorized commits
…kdown

When a Changelog Entry section contains plain text (no bullets), multi-line
content is now joined with spaces to produce valid markdown output.

Previously, newlines were preserved which resulted in broken output like:
- This is a multi-line
changelog entry that
spans several lines. by @user in [#1](url)

Now produces:
- This is a multi-line changelog entry that spans several lines. by @user in [#1](url)

Also adds regression test for this case.
PR descriptions from GitHub may have Windows line endings (CRLF).
The regex patterns using $ to match end-of-line don't match before
\r characters, causing bullet points to not be recognized as
separate entries.

This fix normalizes all line endings to LF before parsing.
Previously, nested bullets like:
  - Add feature
      - Sub-item 1
      - Sub-item 2

Would render as:
  - Add feature by @user in [#1]
    Sub-item 1
    Sub-item 2

Now correctly renders as:
  - Add feature by @user in [#1]
    - Sub-item 1
    - Sub-item 2

Nested items do NOT get author/PR attribution - only the top-level entry does.
- Use marked library for proper markdown parsing instead of complex regex
- Correctly handles CRLF line endings, nested lists, and edge cases
- No dependencies (marked has zero dependencies, ~430KB unpacked)
- Added Jest moduleNameMapper to use UMD build for compatibility
- Updated tests to reflect correct markdown behavior (indented bullets
  after a paragraph without blank line are paragraph text, not a list)
- Convert locateChangeset, extractChangeset, removeChangeset, and
  prependChangeset to use marked lexer instead of complex regex
- Extract common test fixtures to src/utils/__tests__/fixtures/changelog.ts
- Remove duplicate TestCommit interface
- Simplify test markdown to use proper non-indented strings
- Reduce test file size by ~100 lines
- Update jest config to exclude fixtures directory from test discovery
BREAKING: Removed changelog.test.ts (4237 lines) and replaced with:
- changelog-file-ops.test.ts (210 lines) - findChangeset, removeChangeset, prependChangeset
- changelog-generate.test.ts (535 lines) - generateChangesetFromGit with snapshot testing
- changelog-extract.test.ts (195 lines) - extractScope, formatScopeTitle, extractChangelogEntry
- changelog-utils.test.ts (144 lines) - shouldExcludePR, shouldSkipCurrentPR, getBumpTypeForPR

Total reduction: 4237 → 1444 lines (~66% reduction)

The snapshot tests capture the full output format without inline expected strings,
making the tests much more maintainable and readable.
@BYK BYK merged commit 9c26646 into master Dec 27, 2025
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@BYK BYK deleted the cursor/respond-to-github-message-claude-4.5-sonnet-thinking-451d branch December 27, 2025 09:16
@BYK BYK changed the title feat: Allow changelog entry to be overridden by PR description section feat(changelog): Allow changelog entry to be overridden by PR description section Dec 27, 2025
BYK added a commit that referenced this pull request Dec 30, 2025
## Problem

When viewing the changelog preview for a PR that is already merged
(e.g., after editing its title/description), the PR appears twice in the
changelog:
- Once from git history (via `fetchRawCommitInfo`)
- Once from the current PR fetch (with `highlight: true`)

Additionally, in repositories using **rebase-merge** workflows, multiple
commits from a single PR can each be associated with the same PR number
via GitHub's `associatedPullRequests` API, causing duplicate changelog
entries.

Fixes #648

## Solution

Added deduplication at two levels:

1. **`fetchRawCommitInfo`**: Deduplicates commits with the same PR
number from git history using a `Set`. This handles rebase-merge
workflows where multiple commits are associated with the same PR. Keeps
the first (newest) occurrence since git log returns commits
newest-first.

2. **`generateChangelogWithHighlight`**: Filters the current PR from git
history before prepending the fresh highlighted version, ensuring we use
up-to-date data (e.g., if the PR title was edited after merge).

## Changes

- `src/utils/changelog.ts`: Added deduplication in `fetchRawCommitInfo`
and updated comments in `generateChangelogWithHighlight`
- `src/utils/__tests__/changelog-generate.test.ts`: Added 3 new tests:
  - Merged PR deduplication scenario
  - Rebase-merge workflow with multiple commits per PR
  - Commits without PR association are preserved
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