chore: allow unreleased-lines to be reused on other files (#5593)

.CI/format-recent-changes.py

@@ -16,18 +16,20 @@ LINE_REGEX = re.compile(
 )
 VERSION_REGEX = re.compile(r"^#+\s*v?\d")
 
-# contains lines in the form of
-# {commit-sha} (<{email}>\s+{date}\s+{line-no}) {line}
-p = subprocess.run(
-    ["git", "blame", "-e", "--date=iso", "../CHANGELOG.md"],
+
+def get_unreleased_lines(file: str):
+    # contains lines in the form of
+    # {commit-sha} (<{email}>\s+{date}\s+{line-no}) {line}
+    p = subprocess.run(
+        ["git", "blame", "-e", "--date=iso", file],
         cwd=os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)),
         text=True,
         check=True,
         capture_output=True,
-)
+    )
 
-unreleased_lines: list[tuple[datetime, str]] = []
-for line in p.stdout.splitlines():
+    unreleased_lines: list[tuple[datetime, str]] = []
+    for line in p.stdout.splitlines():
         if not line:
             continue
         m = LINE_REGEX.match(line)
@@ -46,7 +48,11 @@ for line in p.stdout.splitlines():
         content = content.replace("- ", f"- [{d.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')}] ", 1)
         unreleased_lines.append((d, content))
 
-unreleased_lines.sort(key=lambda it: it[0], reverse=True)
+    unreleased_lines.sort(key=lambda it: it[0], reverse=True)
+    return unreleased_lines
+
+
+unreleased_lines = get_unreleased_lines("../CHANGELOG.md")
 
 if len(unreleased_lines) == 0:
     print("No changes since last release.")

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
 - Dev: Moved some responsibility away from Application into WindowManager. (#5551)
 - Dev: Fixed benchmarks segfaulting on run. (#5559)
 - Dev: Refactored `MessageBuilder` to be a single class. (#5548)
-- Dev: Recent changes are now shown in the nightly release description. (#5553, #5554)
+- Dev: Recent changes are now shown in the nightly release description. (#5553, #5554, #5593)
 - Dev: The timer for `StreamerMode` is now destroyed on the correct thread. (#5571)
 - Dev: Cleanup some parts of the `magic_enum` adaptation for Qt. (#5587)