Git commit message from Editor UI

Rogelio · May 28, 2022, 3:12am

Let’s say we have an article, and the citation changes, the author, post doc, academic, goes into the article, changes it, goes into the in review column of the editorial workflow.

I would very much want that academic to have a comment box at the top of the editor UI, that would allow them to write something a la:
"Fix: Citation changed due to peer review, update 16 Mar with new etc. etc. "

The Academic’s equivalent of an almost semantic commit.

I found the below two links:

github.com/netlify/netlify-cms

Extend commit message template tags with collection values

opened 03:00PM - 26 Nov 18 UTC

karolis-sh

area: configuration area: extensions/backends pinned

**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**  When content editors do updates to already created entity, the cms creates multiple similar commits (`Update collection {{slug}}` x N ... ). We want our content editors to provide some more info in the commit messages. I'm aware of https://www.netlifycms.org/docs/beta-features/#commit-message-templates, but I'd like to pass collection data to the template. **Describe the solution you'd like** `commit_messages` could also be described for collections, via such API: ``` backend: commit_messages: create: Create {{collection}} “{{slug}}” update: Update {{collection}} “{{slug}}” delete: Delete {{collection}} “{{slug}}” collections: - label: Post name: post folder: src/content/posts create: true slug: "{{year}}-{{month}}-{{day}}_{{uri}}" fields: - { label: "Describe the changes", name: changes, required: true } - { label: Title, name: title, required: true } - { label: Body, name: body, widget: markdown, required: true } commit_messages: update: Update {{collection}} “{{slug}}” - {{changes}} ``` **Describe alternatives you've considered** I tried to include the field in the slug: ``` backend: commit_messages: create: Create {{collection}} “{{slug}}” update: Update {{collection}} “{{slug}}” delete: Delete {{collection}} “{{slug}}” collections: - label: Post name: post folder: src/content/posts create: true slug: "{{year}}-{{month}}-{{day}}_{{uri}}_{{changes}}" fields: - { label: "Describe the changes", name: changes, required: true } - { label: Title, name: title, required: true } - { label: Body, name: body, widget: markdown, required: true } ``` But since the filename doesn't change, the slug passed to commit template doesn't use the latest values.

It seems this is kind of in the wings, but I Could be misreading, does anyone have knowledge or direction otherwise they could assist me with?

tomrutgers · May 28, 2022, 7:08am

The commit messages object does not have access to a collections’ fields nor has a dedicated commit_messages parameter been created, unfortunately. In other words: the commit messages template tags are not editable from the CMS.

Rogelio · June 17, 2022, 2:46am

Good to know. Thanks Tom.