Add -x/--exclude parameter to allow to exclude some commits from generated changelog

gitdch

@@ -175,6 +175,20 @@ parser.add_argument(
     default=[]
 )
 
+parser.add_argument(
+    '-x', '--exclude',
+    action='append',
+    type=re.compile,
+    dest='exclude',
+    help=(
+        'Commit exclusion regex: you could specify regex to exclude some '
+        'commits from generated changelog entries. For instance, to exclude '
+        'commits with message starting with "CI: ", specify -x "^CI: " '
+        '(optional, multiple regex allowed)'
+    ),
+    default=[]
+)
+
 options = parser.parse_args()
 
 if not options.package_name:
@@ -256,7 +270,16 @@ messages = []
 for commit in repo.iter_commits(rev=options.revision):
     if version_commit is None:
         version_commit = commit
-    log.debug('Commit %s', commit)
+    log.debug('Commit %s (%s)', commit, commit.summary)
+    excluded = False
+    for regex in options.exclude:
+        if regex.search(commit.summary):
+            excluded = True
+            log.debug(
+                'Exclude commit %s ("%s", match with "%s")',
+                commit, commit.summary, regex.pattern)
+    if excluded:
+        continue
     if commit.binsha in tag_commits:
         new_tag = tag_commits[commit.binsha]
         log.debug('Reach new tag %s', new_tag)
@@ -267,7 +290,7 @@ for commit in repo.iter_commits(rev=options.revision):
         version = clean_deb_version(tag.name)
         version_commit = commit
         messages = []
-        log.debug('Iter commits for version %s')
+        log.debug('Iter commits for version %s', version)
     messages.append(commit.summary)
 add_version()
 log.info('%d versions found', len(versions))