Absolute PR link in Changelog

[mihaigalos]

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Feature description

When producing the changelog, we would like to produce an absolute link to the PR instead of just a #number.

This ensures the PR is referenceable from other repos.

The usecase is that we propagate changes to other repos, so by writing a relative #number in the release notes, the reference will be to that target repo's PRs, not the original one's - this is confusing and incorrect.

Desired solution

Alternatives considered

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[orhun]

Hello 👋🏼

You can achieve this by using preprocessors/postprocessors:

[changelog]
postprocessors = [
  { pattern = '<REPO>', replace = "https://github.com/orhun/git-cliff" }, # replace repository URL
]

[git]
# regex for preprocessing the commit messages
commit_preprocessors = [
  { pattern = '\((\w+\s)?#([0-9]+)\)', replace = "([#${2}](<REPO>/issues/${2}))" },
]

Also see the other template examples: https://git-cliff.org/docs/templating/examples

Let me know if you need any further help :)

[mihaigalos]

thanks!