Is it possible to use pattern matching with the template language?

[chennemann]

usually our commit messages start with some kind of ticket number:

PR-2876: some message

I would like to highlight the number in the log. so I was thinking about something like this:

concat(
    label("ticket", description.first_line.remove_suffix('regex:":(.*)"')),
    description.first_line.remove_prefix('regex:"(.*):"')
)

This of course does not work. Is there some other solution to this that I am not aware of?

Edit:
I saw right now that there is already an open PR for this:
#6899

[kooroshkz]

Heyy!
Pattern matching with regex isn’t supported directly in the template language yet. For now, you'd have to pre-process commit messages outside of the template system (e.g. with a script). Might be worth opening a feature request if it’s something you'd use often.

Feel free to mark this as the answer if it helps!

[chennemann]

Thanks for the clarification

[chennemann]

Starting from 0.33 jj supports regex in templates for the string type using .match()