Improve Changelog when we create a release

[humphd]

We have some code in the release.yml workflow to create an automated release with changelog. However, the changelog is currently empty, and it would be nice to have it include the list of changes.

[sfrunza13]

The way I thought this would work is that the action would determine the difference in commits between this and the last release commit but it seems as though it considers the current commit the last commit despite having all the commits in its payload

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The "difference" between current release and previous release is apparently 0 commits.

The only exception was the first run of this release flow which took the difference from head to current commit and actually correctly found the difference in commits and created a changelog with the actual commits within it. (Because there was no existing release tag to compare with at the time)

Not sure yet why it is this way. My best guess is that the release tag is being set to the latest commit before the comparison occurs and that is why it deems there shouldn't be any commits displayed but this was not the advertised behavior: https://github.com/marvinpinto/action-automatic-releases

[sfrunza13]

Perhaps I should name the tag something other than the branches name...

[humphd]

Or swap to a different action for this task, there are tons of "changelog" actions out there. Another one might do a better job using our branch-based release flow.

[sfrunza13]

Just tested it on my own repo, I think I was right about just switching the tag from release. I had the same problem then changed it to latest and this is the ensuing result (after the original commit after the switch which released from the last head to the new latest tag so this one is from previous latest to current)

Determining state of the previous release
  Searching for SHA corresponding to previous "tags/latest" release tag
  Retrieving commits between latest and 43423271d8bc30a54da53cf2[15](https://github.com/sfrunza13/testingReleases/actions/runs/4758224306/jobs/8455996752#step:2:18)9ac344bab01a1f
  Successfully retrieved 4 commits between latest and 43423271d8bc30a54da53cf2159ac344bab01a1f

[humphd]

This wasn't enough: https://github.com/DevelopingSpace/starchart/releases/tag/latest

Re-opening.

[sfrunza13]

I am really not sure why this is happening since I wrote the actions the same but the result differs in the following:

Generating changelog
  Found 1 pull request(s) associated with commit 5862e0a4e92b48a7b9c1d570edb524598e51c403
  Found 1 pull request(s) associated with commit c[18](https://github.com/DevelopingSpace/starchart/actions/runs/4773322713/jobs/8486323972#step:2:22)efda7df602f13b0b74e3af6c56ac1c0792e68
  Found 1 pull request(s) associated with commit 61202bffc855d10a8a76ba4da5030866e979c39d
  Found 1 pull request(s) associated with commit ee52c2653015d159f79185a242618bdd23104154
  Found 1 pull request(s) associated with commit 0516f72efd8243edb6eee09c93c5a2526c9984b6
  Found 1 pull request(s) associated with commit 013a6a943f25a8408c4ba33bbf78f7b58c95289e
  Found 1 pull request(s) associated with commit 1daa982cc80a5d8ba5[19](https://github.com/DevelopingSpace/starchart/actions/runs/4773322713/jobs/8486323972#step:2:23)4c49fc80747d0e6f4546

  Generating changelog
Found 1 pull request(s) associated with commit 4393754de378be588ca8ff7[20](https://github.com/sfrunza13/testingReleases/actions/runs/4758356052/jobs/8456309764#step:2:24)e6c11de4b8fb436
Adding commit "trying to format the releases" to the changelog
Found 1 pull request(s) associated with commit 35f3af920dd9dbbb8bae0a1694c4f37991dc46a1
Adding commit "turned it into a node project" to the changelog
Found 1 pull request(s) associated with commit f029a6de1167612c4cec36fc5bb3207c3d7[22](https://github.com/sfrunza13/testingReleases/actions/runs/4758356052/jobs/8456309764#step:2:26)889
Adding commit "after node project" to the changelog

It seems to find the pull requests now but does not successfully add the commits.

Seems to have problems in the following method, I'm unsure why still.
https://github.dev/marvinpinto/actions/blob/9ecff5f61cbff8b2d81c3a064cb805931e730fdd/packages/automatic-releases/src/main.ts#L179

[humphd]

I don't think we should spend too much time on this Action, since there are lots of others we could use. If this won't do what we want, let's use another.

[sfrunza13]

If we use the following https://github.com/ardalanamini/auto-changelog we can create changelogs that look like the following:

but the problem would be that the commit messages require a prefix or else they will not show up.

To be categorized under the changelog they would need to be one of the types defined by us in the .yml file here:

commit-types: |
            breaking: Breaking Changes
            feat: New Features
            fix: Bug Fixes
            revert: Reverts
            perf: Performance Improvements
            refactor: Refactors
            deps: Dependencies
            docs: Documentation Changes
            style: Code Style Changes
            build: Build System
            ci: Continuous Integration
            test: Tests
            chore: Chores
            other: Other Changes

[humphd]

Special commit messages won't work with student developers, in my experience.