Often changelogs are generated from the patch branch and then
cherry-picked into the `CHANGELOG.md` file in `master` for
better access and readability. This is problematic though as
`conventional-changelog` (the tool we use for generating the
changelog), will duplicate commits when a future changelog
is generated from `master` then (i.e. for a new minor release).
This happens because conventional-changelog always generates the
changelog from the latest tag in a given branch to `HEAD`. The
tag in the patch branch does not correspond to any SHA in `master`
so the intersection of commits is not automatically omitted.
We work around this naively (until we have a better tool provided
by dev-infra), by deduping commits that are already part of the
changelog. This has proven to work as expected in the components
repo.
PR Close#37956
Historically, we've cleaned Ivy commits out of the CHANGELOG because
Ivy was not available except as a preview. Given that Ivy will soon
be the default in 9.0.0, it no longer makes sense to remove the Ivy
commits from the log. This changes the gulp changelog task so that
Ivy commits are included by default.
PR Close#32114
there is still too much churn to make this info useful in the release notes, advanced
developers can use git log to find out what's going on with ivy.
PR Close#27532
Paul Gschwendtner
Joey Perrott
Kara Erickson
Igor Minar
George Kalpakas
Olivier Combe
Pete Bacon Darwin