Make URL to tags in rendered changelog configurable

.snippets/33.md

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+## Make URL to tags in rendered changelog configurable
+<!--
+type: feature
+scope: all
+affected: all
+-->
+
+Introduce `--version-reference` to make the URL to the tags in the rendered changelog configurable

README.md

@@ -124,6 +124,11 @@ the changelog generation. This is useful if those changes are not affecting
 the "product" like internal documentation changes or similar things, which e.g.
 do not require a deployment.
 
+The option `--version-reference` allows to configure the URL to the tags in the
+rendered changelog file. Use e.g.
+`https://github.com/<GITHUB_USER>/<PROJECT_USING_SNIPPETS2CHANGELOG>/tree/`
+for a project using this package.
+
 ### Parse
 
 Parse an existing snippet file and return the data as JSON without indentation

snippets2changelog/cli.py

@@ -80,6 +80,12 @@ def parse_args(argv: Union[Sequence[str], None] = None) -> Args:
         action='store_true',
         help="Print latest changelog entry as JSON instead of updating the changelog file",
     )
+    parser_changelog.add_argument(
+        "--version-reference",
+        type=str,
+        help="Base version reference for links to tags in rendered changelog",
+        default="https://github.com/brainelectronics/snippets2changelog/tree/",
+    )
 
     parser_create = subparsers.add_parser(
         "create",
@@ -130,7 +136,7 @@ def fn_info(_args: Args) -> None:
 
 def fn_changelog(args: Args) -> None:
     cc = ChangelogCreator(changelog=args.changelog, snippets_folder=args.snippets, update_in_place=args.in_place, skip_internal=args.no_internal, verbosity=args.verbose)
-    cc.update_changelog(dry_run=args.dry_run)
+    cc.update_changelog(dry_run=args.dry_run, version_reference=args.version_reference)
 
 
 def fn_create(args: Args) -> None:

snippets2changelog/creator.py

@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ def __init__(self, changelog: Path,  snippets_folder: Path, update_in_place: boo
 
         self._skip_internal = skip_internal
 
-    def update_changelog(self, dry_run: bool = False) -> None:
+    def update_changelog(self, dry_run: bool = False, version_reference: str = "https://github.com/brainelectronics/snippets2changelog/tree/") -> None:
         new_changelog_content = ""
         # create a "prolog" and an "epilog", with the new content in between
         existing_changelog_content = read_file(path=self._changelog, parse="read").split(self._version_line)
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ def update_changelog(self, dry_run: bool = False) -> None:
                     "affected": snippet_content["affected"],
                 },
                 "content": snippet_content["details"],
-                "version_reference": f"https://github.com/brainelectronics/snippets2changelog/tree/{self.semver_data}",
+                "version_reference": f"{version_reference}/{self.semver_data}",
             }
             latest_changelog_entry = changelog_entry_content
             self._logger.debug(f"changelog_entry_content: {changelog_entry_content}")