Release notes generation always lists all changes

[stefanschulte]

Hi there,
is it possible to limit the release notes created to only list the differences/additions compared to the last release prior to the new release?
With my default configuration, it always lists the entire changelog from beginning of time for the repo. I'm using the github release notes release.yml, but I doubt that has any influence?

My config:

- name: Create release
      uses: ncipollo/release-action@1e3e9c6637e5566e185b7ab66f187539c5a76da7 # v1.13.0
      env:
        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
      with:
        tag: "v${{ env.version }}"
        generateReleaseNotes: true

[ncipollo]

GitHub is doing most of the work here, there's not a ton you can really configure via their API (last I checked). I think they do typically try and compare against the last release but it does seem a little finicky about picking the "last" release. Here are some things you can try to maybe get better result:

• make sure the previous releases aren't drafts (I think it ignores these)
• make sure previous releases aren't marked as prerelease
• not sure if this matters but I would also make sure your releases are using valid semantic versioning.

If you can't get GitHub release notes to work, you could also always generates the diff yourself. You can use a simple log command in one step to output commits between two versions, write those to a file, then update the action to read in that file via bodyFile.