Add body regex filter

Closes: #544238

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/git-dch b/git-dch
index 57b508a6..7f762428 100755
--- a/git-dch
+++ b/git-dch
@@ -202,6 +202,11 @@ def parse_commit(repo, commitid, options):
     bugs = {}
     bts_closes = re.compile(r'(?P<bts>%s):\s+%s' % (options.meta_closes, bug_r), re.I)
 
+    if options.ignore_regex: # Ignore r'' since it matches everything
+        ignore_re = re.compile(options.ignore_regex)
+    else:
+        ignore_re = None
+
     commit = repo.show(commitid)
     author, email = get_author(commit)
     if not author:
@@ -223,7 +228,9 @@ def parse_commit(repo, commitid, options):
             else: # normal commit message
                 if msg and not options.full:
                     continue
-                elif line.strip(): # don't add all whitespace lines
+                if ignore_re and ignore_re.match(line):
+                    continue
+                if line.strip(): # don't add all whitespace lines
                     msg += line
         # start of diff output:
         elif line.startswith('diff '):
@@ -312,6 +319,8 @@ def main(argv):
     commit_group.add_config_file_option(option_name="id-length", dest="idlen",
                       help="include N digits of the commit id in the changelog entry, default is '%(id-length)s'",
                       type="int", metavar="N")
+    commit_group.add_config_file_option(option_name="ignore-regex", dest="ignore_regex",
+                      help="Ignore commit lines matching regex, default is '%(ignore-regex)s'")
     (options, args) = parser.parse_args(argv[1:])
 
     if options.snapshot and options.release: