Commits with description/body content are being left out

[geebru]

It is entirely possible I'm missing something obvious in the documentation but I'm facing an issue fairly detrimental to how myself and my team write commits.

A typical commit being added to the changelog via auto-changelog consists of: 🔨 Update functionality for feature

However I noticed when commits were tied to a story ID, or had extra description, they are not included in the automated updates and are left out entirely:

🔨 Update functionality for feature

PID-123

or

🔨 Update functionality for feature

Due to change in requirements, needed
to change how thing is handled

Both of those examples are not included in the changelog created by auto-changelog. They exist in the Git history locally and on the remote, so they do exist, but auto-changelog seems to be skipping over any commit that is not only a subject line.

Am I, like I mentioned, missing or misusing an option or template? Both can be found below:

[geebru]

For extra context here is the point where I noticed this occuring:

In GitHub, and locally, this was the history I expected to see (minus release commits of course):

After running auto-changelog, the changelog created was this:

The "Add new styles" commit, which has description area content (where I store my story links), is left out of the generated log.

EDIT: Running npx auto-changelog does show the full list of commits (including release and merge commits) so I'm guessing it has to do with my template, but it's mostly a variation of the example template from the docs. I originally assumed maybe commits missing from the message regex were being left out, but that doesn't seem to be true either (as two commits missing have "Add" in them.

[cookpete]

Merge commits and commits that fix an issue are grouped into separate lists (merges and fixes) which is why they don’t appear in commits.

I guess in your case you need a flag that doesn’t do any clever grouping of commits based on the content, so they all appear in the commits array and can be filtered by your handlebars template.

[yejiyang]

@geebru Hi, have you figured out the issue "commits with description/body content are being left out "?
I experience the same issue.
The command I use:
auto-changelog --output CHANGELOG.md --commit-limit false --template keepachangelog --ignore-commit-pattern '.*\[skip ci\].*'

For the commit, I expect to have both commit title and body message, like

Author: Jiyang Ye <yejiyang@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat Dec 9 14:02:40 2023 +0100

    This commit has both title and message
    
    Dummy message. xxxx

The result I got missed the body message,

Commits
This commit has both title and message b0bedf8

[alber70g]

Any chance we could have an option to include the commit body in the changelog? I use it to describe breaking changes and how users can migrate. Would be useful to have in the changelog