conventional-changelog/standard-version

Squashed commits result in issues when the changelog is generated

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Describe the bug
Upstream dependency git-semver-tags used in this file does not support squashed commits, resulting in incorrect version numbers being generated in the previousTag.

Current behavior
We use a process of squashing branches before merging into the trunk. Back-merging the trunk into other branches pulls in those squashed commits, where the tag is part of the commit message. git-semver-tags cannot find these tags.

Expected behavior
When squashed commits are back-merged into a branch, semantic-version should be able to parse the tag correctly.

Environment

  • standard-version version(s): v9.3.2
  • Node/npm version: node 16.15.0/npm 8.5.5
  • OS: Windows 10 using Git Bash to emulate *nix environment.

Possible Solution
If no tags are found in the first pass using git-semver-tags, it would be useful to have a fallback to directly parsing output from git tag to find the latest tag. Optionally this could be patched in the upstream dependency.