commitizen-action

Add commitizen incredibly fast into your project!

Features

• Allow prerelease
• Super easy to setup
• Automatically bump version
• Automatically create changelog
• Update any file in your repo with the new version

Are you using conventional commits and semver?

Then you are ready to use this github action! The only thing you'll need is the .cz.toml file in your project.

Usage

1. In your repository create a .cz.toml file (you can run cz init to create it)
2. Create a .github/workflows/bumpversion.yaml with the Sample Workflow

Minimal configuration

Your .cz.toml (or pyproject.toml if you are using python) should look like this.

[tool.commitizen]
version = "0.1.0"  # This should be your current semver version

For more information visit commitizen's configuration page

Sample Workflow

name: Bump version

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master

jobs:
  bump_version:
    if: "!startsWith(github.event.head_commit.message, 'bump:')"
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: "Bump version and create changelog with commitizen"
    steps:
      - name: Check out
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
          token: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
      - id: cz
        name: Create bump and changelog
        uses: commitizen-tools/commitizen-action@master
        with:
          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
      - name: Print Version
        run: echo "Bumped to version ${{ steps.cz.outputs.version }}"

Variables

Outputs

The new version is also available as an environment variable under REVISION or you can access using ${{ steps.cz.outputs.version }}

Using SSH with deploy keys

1. Create a deploy key (which is the SSH public key)
2. Add the private key as a Secret in your repository, e.g: COMMIT_KEY
3. Set up your action

name: Bump version

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main

jobs:
  bump-version:
    if: "!startsWith(github.event.head_commit.message, 'bump:')"
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: "Bump version and create changelog with commitizen"
    steps:
      - name: Check out
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
          ssh-key: "${{ secrets.COMMIT_KEY }}"
      - name: Create bump and changelog
        uses: commitizen-tools/commitizen-action@master
        with:
          push: false
      - name: Push using ssh
        run: |
          git push origin main --tags

Creating a Github release

name: Bump version

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main

jobs:
  bump-version:
    if: "!startsWith(github.event.head_commit.message, 'bump:')"
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: "Bump version and create changelog with commitizen"
    steps:
      - name: Check out
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
          token: "${{ secrets.PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN }}"
      - name: Create bump and changelog
        uses: commitizen-tools/commitizen-action@master
        with:
          github_token: ${{ secrets.PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
          changelog_increment_filename: body.md
      - name: Release
        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v1
        with:
          body_path: "body.md"
          tag_name: ${{ env.REVISION }}
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Troubleshooting

Other actions are not triggered when the tag is pushed

This problem occurs because secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN do not trigger other actions by design.

To solve it, you must use a personal access token in the checkout and the commitizen steps.

Follow the instructions in commitizen's documentation.

I'm not using conventional commits, I'm using my own set of rules on commits

If your rules can be parsed, then you can build your own commitizen rules, create a new commitizen python package, or you can describe it on the toml config itself.

Read more about customization