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.
The repo had an active quarter. There are around 200 commits in the window.
The slow version:
- You open Bitbucket and navigate to the commits view for
payments-service, filtered to the main branch - Bitbucket shows twenty commits per page, so you need ten pages
- You copy page one into a Google Sheet and paste
- By page three you realize the "files changed" column does not appear in the commits list view — it is only visible inside each individual commit
- You open ten individual commit pages to get file counts, then you give up
- The changelog goes to the VP with no file-change data and a note saying "data incomplete."
The fast version is one prompt and the changelog is complete.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your Google Sheet that pulls the full commit history and, for each commit, fetches the diff stats so you get file counts without opening any 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. 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 changelog table for Q1:
- Commit hash — the short SHA, linkable if needed
- Author — who made the commit
- Message — the full commit message as written
- Date — formatted as YYYY-MM-DD, not a raw ISO timestamp
- Files changed — the count from the diff stats
Every commit in the window, with file-change data. Not a truncated list, not a list missing the diff column because the UI does not show it on the overview page.
The changelog goes to the VP complete. No "data incomplete" footnotes.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Commit history data from Bitbucket has a few complications in the wild.
When commit messages are inconsistent and need normalizing
Some engineers use conventional commit format (feat:, fix:, chore:). Others write free-form messages. 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. In column D, extract the conventional commit type prefix (feat, fix, chore, docs, etc.) from the message if one is present; write "other" if not. Write the date in column E.
When the VP wants to see 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 in columns A through D on the Raw tab. On the Weekly tab, group commits by week and write the week start date, total commit count, and a comma-separated list of unique authors for that week.
When you want to exclude automated commits from the changelog
Your CI system pushes version bump commits that clutter the changelog. They all start with "chore(release):".
List all commits on the main branch of Bitbucket repo 'payments-service' in workspace 'acme-corp' between January 1 and March 31. Exclude any commits where the message starts with 'chore(release):'. Write commit hash, author, message, and date in columns A through D.
When the VP also wants the biggest-impact commits surfaced separately
You want the top 10 commits by files changed on a separate tab, so the VP can see which changes were the largest in scope.
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 — hash, author, message, date, files changed — on the Raw tab. On the Top10 tab, list the ten commits with the highest files-changed count, sorted descending, with the same columns.
The pattern: the raw changelog and the curated highlights both come out of one prompt. You are not running two separate reports and merging them.
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 Google Sheet. The Bitbucket integration is included in every SheetXAI plan. For related workflows, see how to export deployment history for a release audit or the Bitbucket in Google Sheets overview.