GLIX Action – the Git Log Identifier eXtractor

This action extracts all Jira issue keys from a certain git commit and its relevant parents

The regex is based on Atlassian Documentation.

Inputs

• commitId: the ID (sha) of the relevant commit
• mainBranch: the main branch of the repo (e.g. "master" or "main")
• baseDir: (optional) the path of the git repo to use

Outputs

• issueKeys: the found Jira issue keys from all commit messages separated by a comma (e.g. TEST-1,TEST-2)

Usage

Most of you probably use "actions/checkout@v2" (or v3) to checkout the repo in the action run. By default that action uses a fetch-depth of 1, so only the last commit is fetched. This plugin "walks" the repository so we need more commits. Therefore you have to define a higher fetch-depth so we have a certain git history. A good value for example would be 30. Values higher than 50 don't make sense as the plugin caps logs to 50 elements.

Example usage

- uses: actions/checkout@v3
  with:
    fetch-depth: '30'
- uses: levigo/github-action-glix@v1.0
  id: glix
  with:
    commitId: "my-company.atlassian.net"
    mainBranch: "master"

Usage with "Jira create and set fix version"

Here is an example on how to extract the issueKey from the commit messages and set the same fix version for all those Jira issues.

  - uses: actions/checkout@v3
    with:
      fetch-depth: '30'

  - uses: levigo/github-action-glix@v1.0
    id: glix
    with:
      commitId: ${{ github.sha }}
      mainBranch: "master"

  - uses: levigo/github-action-jira-fixversion@v1.0
    with:
      domain: "my-company.atlassian.net"
      username: "technical-user@company.net"
      password: "fmpUJkGhdKFvoTJclsZ03xw1"
      versionName: "1.0.5"
      versionDescription: "Continuous Delivery Version"
      issueKeys: ${{ steps.glix.outputs.issueKeys }}