What sections is hidden by default?

[liborjelinek]

I have a Git history with all types from Angular convention. However, some types (100% docs and chore types) seem to be hidden by default... So I am running git-changelog with listing everything under --section argument.

uv run git-changelog -B auto -t keepachangelog -c angular --sections build,chore,ci,docs,feat,fix,perf,refactor,revert,style,test > CHANGELOG.md

What sections are hidden by default, and why? Is it possible to list all sections without listing it in --sections?

[pawamoy]

The default sections are listed here:

git-changelog/src/git_changelog/commit.py

Lines 424 to 430 in f7bec75

	DEFAULT_RENDER: ClassVar[list[str]] = [
	TYPES["feat"],
	TYPES["fix"],
	TYPES["revert"],
	TYPES["refactor"],
	TYPES["perf"],
	]

The reason we only include these ones by default is that types like chore, docs, style, ci, tests, etc. are not interesting to users reading the changelog. Others like build and deps should definitely be included by default but this would now be a breaking change.

I'm open to a feature request to support a special :all: type 🙂