Conventional Changelog action

This action will bump version, tag commit and generate a changelog with conventional commits.

Inputs

• Required github-token: Github token.
• Optional git-message: Commit message that is used when committing the changelog.
• Optional preset: Preset that is used from conventional commits. Default angular.
• Optional tag-prefix: Prefix for the git tags. Default v.
• Optional output-file: File to output the changelog to. Default CHANGELOG.md, when providing 'false' no file will be generated / updated.
• Optional release-count: Number of releases to preserve in changelog. Default 5, use 0 to regenerate all.
• Optional package-json: The path to the package.json to use. Default ./package.json.
• Optional skip-on-empty: Boolean to specify if you want to skip empty release (no-changelog generated). This case occured when you push chore commit with angular for example. Default 'false'.

Outputs

• changelog: The generated changelog for the new version.
• clean_changelog: The generated changelog for the new version without the version name in it (Better for Github releases)
• version: The new version.
• tag: The name of the generated tag.
• skipped: Boolean ('true' or 'false') specifying if this step have been skipped

Example usages

Uses all the defaults

- name: Conventional Changelog Action
  uses: TriPSs/conventional-changelog-action@v2
  with:
    github-token: ${{ secrets.github_token }}

Overwrite everything

- name: Conventional Changelog Action
  uses: TriPSs/conventional-changelog-action@v2
  with:
    github-token: ${{ secrets.github_token }}
    git-message: 'chore(release): {version}'
    preset: 'angular'
    tag-prefix: 'v'
    output-file: 'CHANGELOG.md'
    release-count: '5'
    package-json: './package.json'
    skip-on-empty: 'false'

No file changelog

- name: Conventional Changelog Action
  uses: TriPSs/conventional-changelog-action@v2
  with:
    github-token: ${{ secrets.github_token }}
    output-file: 'false'

Github releases

- name: Conventional Changelog Action
  id: changelog
  uses: TriPSs/conventional-changelog-action@v2
  with:
    github-token: ${{ secrets.github_token }}
    output-file: 'false'
    skip-on-empty: 'true'

- name: Create Release
  uses: actions/create-release@v1
  if: ${{ steps.changelog.outputs.skipped == 'false' }}
  env:
   GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.github_token }}
  with:
   tag_name: ${{ steps.changelog.outputs.tag }}
   release_name: ${{ steps.changelog.outputs.tag }}
   body: ${{ steps.changelog.outputs.clean_changelog }}