Outputting the Context separately from the generated changelog

[leonsilicon]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
git-cliff looks amazing for parsing git commits, but sometimes I'd love to have more power over the parsed commit messages (i.e. the Context that's passed to Tera) instead of being forced to use a Tera template to generate my changelog.

Describe the solution you'd like
Would it be possible to have an option added to git-cliff that would output the parsed commits as a normal JSON file without first passing it through a Tera template?

[orhun]

Hello!

Thank you for the nice suggestion. I pushed 95ad55d which adds --context flag for outputting the changelog context as you described:

$ git cliff --context | jq .
$ git cliff --context --output context.json

This flag will be available with the upcoming release so feel free to test this out and report bugs (if any) until then! 🐻

[leonsilicon]

Perfect, it works beautifully, thank you so much! One question I have is whether the warning "git_cliff > Changelog body is not specified, using the default template" should still be displayed when the --context flag is used. If I understand correctly, the body tag should be redundant when using --context (Correct me if I'm wrong!)

[orhun]

Perfect, it works beautifully, thank you so much! One question I have is whether the warning "git_cliff > Changelog body is not specified, using the default template" should still be displayed when the --context flag is used. If I understand correctly, the body tag should be redundant when using --context (Correct me if I'm wrong!)

Ah, good catch. Fixed it in efd40e0