No tag found to do an incremental changelog

[12rambau]

Description

I want to use commitizen in my repository and automatically bump vresion to pipy (and maybe someday conda-forge). Looking at the documentation I started with github actions that are still not compatible with my repository structure (I have a main branch and I'm working directly on it).

So I wanted to go with the CLI that looks exactly like what i needed:

I created a .cz.yaml file:

commitizen:
  changelog_file: CHANGELOG.md
  changelog_incremental: true
  changelog_start_rev: v0.12.9
  name: cz_conventional_commits
  tag_format: v$major.$minor.$patch$prerelease
  update_changelog_on_bump: true
  version: 0.12.10
  version_files:
  - setup.py:version
  - ost/__init__.py:__version__ 

and did little modifications

Steps to reproduce

When I run cz bump I get the following error message:

No tag found to do an incremental changelog

If I clean the changelog.md file, it works but I then only have the latest tag and not the previous one.

So I changed the .cz.yaml file to bump the changelog in a second step:

update_changelog_on_bump: false

Then the tag is created but running cz changelog end up with the same error message.
When I print my tags they are all here even some that I don't want to use:

$ git tag 

0.10.1
0.12.5
0.12.6
0.9.4
v0.12.10
v0.12.7
v0.12.8
v0.12.9

It looks like a chicken & egg problem, what did I miss in my configuration?

Environment

Commitizen Version: 2.20.2
Python Version: 3.8.3 (default, Oct 14 2020, 12:53:46)
[Clang 11.0.3 (clang-1103.0.32.29)]
Operating System: Darwin

[woile]

I cloned your repo, and I think your main issue is the tag_format, which includes a v now.
I changed it like this:

-  tag_format: v$major.$minor.$patch$prerelease
+ tag_format: $major.$minor.$patch$prerelease

And then created the missing tag (0.12.9).
After that when doing cz bump it works (you still have to create a new commit because there won't be any).

Let me know if this helps, because in your examples there are tags that are not available in the repo you linked.

[12rambau]

ok now I wrapped my head around it. I was (naively) thinking that tags were pushed to distant repo but nope. So these tags are only existing on my local creating all sort of isssues (actions not triggered), previous tag not existing etc...

Now that the workflow is clearer to me, it works like a charm. thanks for the guidance !

[woile]

Great news!
What we usually do is let the github action create the tag and then push back to the repo.
Here's the tutorial for github actions: https://commitizen-tools.github.io/commitizen/tutorials/github_actions/

[12rambau]

I'm waiting for this issue to be solved as I'm using a main branch

[12rambau]

I'm reopening the issue because it's the exact same problem in another repository. I thought I had understand but it seems I didn't...

So in this repository: https://github.com/12rambau/sepal_ui I wanted to do the exact same thing: create the changelog on bump.

currently I'm not. I tried to add to folowing in my .cz.yaml file:

changelog_incremental: true
update_changelog_on_bump: true

But I'm getting the exact same error:

No tag found to do an incremental changelog

This time I checked my tags and they should all be here with a v_*.*.* value, the last one being v_2.5.3. So what am I missing this time ?

[woile]

It works fine on my side. I cloned, run cz bump and the tag created was v_2.5.3 with the changelog.

My conf:

$ cz version
2.17.11

on ubuntu

[12rambau]

I think that's because I had manually updated the changelog file. I deleted it on the 2.6.2 release and everything came back to normal

[12rambau]

Sorry to reopen it again but I fail to get it every time I want to use the cz bump command it fails because of the changelog (which the main feature of cz for me). All the solutions I found so far are small patches from my side but I would like to better understand what's behinf this error message.

So still the same old problem, I changed stuff in my repository sepal_ui and on a fresh clone and I run cz bump, result:

bump: version 2.9.4 → 2.10.0
tag to create: v_2.10.0
increment detected: MINOR

No tag found to do an incremental changelog

which is again not working. looking at the tags:
the last one is v_2.9.4 which should work. could you clone my repository and simply help me diagnose what's wrong ?