The Scenario
You are a tech lead. The Q1 feature review is next week and your VP wants a complete changelog for the payments-service repo — every commit on the main branch between January 1 and March 31 — with author, message, date, commit hash, and the number of files changed per commit, in an Excel workbook.
The repo had an active quarter: around 200 commits in the window. Bitbucket's commits view shows twenty per page. Files-changed is only visible inside individual commit pages, not in the list view.
The slow version:
- You open Bitbucket commits for
payments-service, main branch, and start copying rows into Excel - Ten pages of twenty rows each
- By page four you realize the "files changed" count is not in the list view — it is inside each individual commit
- You open ten individual commit pages to get file counts, then you give up and decide to leave that column empty
- The VP gets the changelog without the files-changed column and a note saying "not available from UI."
The fast version is one prompt.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your Excel workbook that pulls the full commit history and, for each commit, fetches the diff stats so the files-changed count is there without opening individual commit pages.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
List all commits on the main branch of Bitbucket repo 'payments-service' in workspace 'acme-corp' between January 1 and March 31. For each commit, write commit hash, author, message, date, and number of files changed into columns A through E of the Changelog tab. Sort by date ascending.
SheetXAI fetches the commit history, retrieves diff stats per commit, and writes the complete table. All 200 rows, with file counts.
What You Get
A complete Q1 changelog in the workbook:
- Commit hash — the short SHA
- Author — who made the commit
- Message — the full commit message as written
- Date — formatted as YYYY-MM-DD, sorted ascending
- Files changed — from the diff stats
Every commit, with the files-changed data the VP asked for. No "not available from UI" footnote.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Commit history from Bitbucket has a few complications in real changelog projects.
When commit messages use inconsistent prefixes
Some engineers use conventional commit format (feat:, fix:), others write free-form. You want a Type column that extracts the prefix where it exists.
List all commits on the main branch of Bitbucket repo 'payments-service' in workspace 'acme-corp' between January 1 and March 31. Write commit hash, author, and message in columns A through C of the Changelog tab. In column D, extract the conventional commit type prefix from the message if present; write "other" if not. Write the date in column E.
When the VP wants commits grouped by week
A flat chronological list is fine for reference, but the review meeting goes week by week.
List all commits on the main branch of Bitbucket repo 'payments-service' in workspace 'acme-corp' between January 1 and March 31. Write commit hash, author, message, and date on the Raw tab. On the Weekly tab, group by week using the commit date and write week start date, total commits, and unique author count for that week.
When you want to exclude automated CI commits from the changelog
Your CI pushes version bump commits starting with "chore(release):" that clutter the changelog.
List all commits on the main branch of Bitbucket repo 'payments-service' in workspace 'acme-corp' between January 1 and March 31. Exclude commits where the message starts with 'chore(release):'. Write commit hash, author, message, and date in columns A through D of the Changelog tab.
When the VP also wants the highest-impact commits surfaced separately
The review meeting should highlight the ten largest commits by files changed.
List all commits on the main branch of Bitbucket repo 'payments-service' in workspace 'acme-corp' between January 1 and March 31. Exclude commits starting with 'chore(release):'. Write the full list on the Raw tab — hash, author, message, date, files changed. On the Top10 tab, list the ten commits with the highest files-changed count, sorted descending.
The pattern: the complete changelog and the curated highlights both come from one prompt. The VP gets the reference view and the meeting highlights without a second pass.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and ask it to pull the commit history for any Bitbucket branch into a blank Excel workbook. The Bitbucket integration is included in every SheetXAI plan. For related workflows, see how to export deployment history for an audit in Excel or the Bitbucket in Excel overview.