Configuration type option regex support

[mrastiak]

I think it would be helpful to add regex support to type option in configuration, Example:

"types": [
            {
                "type": "feat",
                "section": "Features"
            },
            {
                "type": "fix",
                "section": "Bug Fixes"
            },
            {
                "type": "regexPattern",
                "section": "Custom Section"
            }
        ]

[farzadso]

I would really like this feature to be implemented too if applicable.

[bcoe]

@mrastiak @farzadso what use-cases would you like this for?

[farzadso]

@bcoe For instance we want commits starting with chore: .... to be in our changelog, but not commits that have this structure : chore: merge branch 'x' into 'y'

[bcoe]

@farzadso seems like a reasonable use-case :+1:

[farzadso]

@bcoe Do you think we could have the implementation any time soon?

[bcoe]

@farzadso would happily accept a patch for the feature, is there any prior art we could use for the syntax? I don't love just running new RegExp() on the string ... maybe we should instead think in terms of globs?

Any other popular libraries we can think of that do this?

[farzadso]

@mrastiak Armin, would you please follow up on the questions Benjamin just asked?

[mrastiak]

@bcoe Hello Benjamin, I don't think glob can help us in this case because we need to use the negative lookahead feature of regex.

[bcoe]

@mrastiak 👍 if you could find some prior art, for a configuration spec that accepts regexes? I guess mocha probably supports regexes in their config?

[mrastiak]

@bcoe You are right mocha does support regex: https://mochajs.org/#-grep-regexp-g-regexp,

Cause Mocha to only run tests matching the given regexp, which is internally compiled to a RegExp.