Compare releases agains previous release (skipping prerelease)

[burtek]

Right now when I create a release after a pre-release, the release changelo only contains changes since the pre-release and the compare link in changelog points to diff between pre-release and this release.

I'd like to make releases always compare against last full release rather than prerelease.

Let's say I have versions 1.0.0, 1.1.0-alpha.1, 1.1.0-alpha.2 and 1.1.0.

I want the changelog to show:

• for 1.1.0-alpha.1 - changes since 1.0.0 (as it works currently)
• for 1.1.0-alpha.2 - changes since 1.1.0-alpha.1 (as it works currently)
• for 1.1.0 - changes since 1.0.0 (including all changes from prereleases) and the compare link pointing to /compare/v1.0.0...v1.1.0

Is this possible now?

[TimothyJones]

I don't think this is currently possible without mucking about with multiple sets of tags (or renaming tags out of the way, which I don't think is a good idea).

If I had this use case once or twice, I would just delete the pre-release tags locally and then run commit-and-tag-version. If it was often, something more automated might be better

[burtek]

So for now I'm gonna make a script that removes prerelease tags, runs this library and pulls tags back from origin.

But I guess that's something that can possibly be implemented and end up being a PR here?

[TimothyJones]

The rationale for which changes to accept is here - I feel like it fits, although I'm not sure that it would be easy to come up with a general case that doesn't make assumptions about how / when the tool is invoked. What do you think?

[dirkluijk]

Also interested in a better solution, I now have to manually remove tags to recreate all the proper changes in the change log after pre-releases.

What about filtering out all the x.y.z.* tags when it does not run in pre-release mode? Do you still accept PRs for new features like this?

[dirkluijk]

@burtek can you maybe share the script you used?

[burtek]

Nothing sofisticated really @dirkluijk

for tag in $(git tag | grep -E '^v[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+-(alpha|beta)\.[0-9]+$'); do
    git tag -d "$tag"
done

yarn release # runs commit-and-tag-version

git fetch --tags