update_news {fledge}R Documentation

Update NEWS.md with messages from top-level commits

Description

Lists all commits from a range (default: top-level commits since the most recent tag) and adds bullets from their body to NEWS.md. Creates NEWS.md if necessary.

Usage

update_news(messages = NULL)

Arguments

messages

A character vector of commit messages, e.g. as in the message column in the return value of get_top_level_commits(). The default uses the top level commits since the last tag as retrieved by get_last_tag().

Value

None

Examples

# Create mock package in a temporary directory.
# Set open to TRUE if you want to play in the mock package.
with_demo_project({
  # Use functions as if inside the newly created package project.
  # (Or go and actually run code inside the newly created package project!)
  # Add a new R file.
  usethis::use_r("cool-function", open = FALSE)
  # Pretend we added useful code inside it.
  # Track the new R file with Git.
  gert::git_add("R/cool-function.R")
  gert::git_commit("- Add cool function.")
  # Bump version with fledge.
  fledge::bump_version()
  fledge::update_news(c("- something I forgot", "- blabla"))
  fledge::update_version()
  gert::git_add("NEWS.md")
  gert::git_commit(message = "release notes tweaking")
  fledge::tag_version()
  print(fledge::get_last_tag())
})

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