Changelog not having all commit messages

[top-kat]

Hi, first a big thanks for such great lib ! Really love your works !

I don't know why, sometimes, when I bump from the cli, it says no changes detected, even if there is new commits since previous version. See this screenshot:

Here is my bump.json config:

{
    "version": {
        "initial": "1.0.1",
        "increments": [
            "major",
            "minor",
            "patch"
        ]
    },
    "changelog": {
        "create": true,
        "version": "### v[version]",
        "commit": "[message]",
        "separator": "\n"
    },
    "commit": {
        "enabled": true,
        "message": "Changed version to [version]"
    },
    "scripts": {
        "postchangelog": "",
        "postrelease": "npm publish"
    }
}

Also, the postrelease script never seem to have worked.

Thanks a lot :)

[fabiospampinato]

We are using simple-git under the hood to get the list of commits, and it's more than a bit unreliable. Maybe I should try a newer version 🤔

Could you perhaps see if that works? (You'll have to update bump's version of simple-git in package.json to a newer version, npm i, and then re-try, all this from inside node_modules/@fabiospampinato/bump).

Otherwise I would need a repo that reproduces this problem reliably.

Also, the postrelease script never seem to have worked.

You don't seem to be configuring Bump to make any releases, I guess that's why that script isn't running. Maybe what you want is a postcommit script instead.

[top-kat]

Thanks for quick reply :)

I have updated to "simple-git": "^1.113.0", (they don't seem to know what patch version mean lol) The output is still the same (missing commit messages). I may investigate further when I have time to and maybe do a PR.

[gsaadeh]

Great work on Bump @fabiospampinato and I am using it now to control the releases. However, we are having the same issue with changelog and i noticed there is https://github.com/CookPete/auto-changelog which can certainly complement the great work that Bump does. Perhaps you can consider using that?

[fabiospampinato]

@gsaadeh Switching to another changelog provider would be a breaking (and big) change, I'd much rather fix the underlying issue there.

Can you link to a repo that reproduces the issue?

[gsaadeh]

@fabiospampinato I understand your concern but I think the one I suggested offers a lot of flexibility compared to the one built-in. I agree that it's a major and breaking change. Unfortunately the repos I am testing it on are private and not on github. I noticed that it didn't parse many of the old version numbers i had although I am using semantic versioning. I might be able to get you some screenshots although it's not ideal

[fabiospampinato]

but I think the one I suggested offers a lot of flexibility compared to the one built-in

I think I personally prefer the simplicity of the built-in one 🤷‍♂

I might be able to get you some screenshots although it's not ideal

Anything that can help me debug the issue would be useful.

[fabiospampinato]

Happy to reopen once somebody provides a repro.