Commits duplicate under new release versions in CHANGELOG.md

[fireflysemantics]

Did a detailed writeup here.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78196255/get-release-it-to-put-each-new-commit-under-the-corresponding-release-version-in

This is what is happening:

## 1.2.0 (2024-03-20)


### Features

* add commit linting 5eee5b0
* add release it changelog generation 80e627c

## 1.1.0 (2024-03-20)


### Features

* add release it changelog generation 80e627c

When the CHANGELOG.md is regenerated with new version numbers, previous commits are also rendered under the new version number, in addition to being rendered where they were previously.

[webpro]

You can use -VV and/or --debug to see better what's going on.

[fireflysemantics]

I tried --debug to have a look at this is the result.

ri % npx release-it --no-git --debug
WARNING Environment variable "GITHUB_TOKEN" is required for automated GitHub Releases.
WARNING Falling back to web-based GitHub Release.

🚀 Let's release ri (1.1.0...1.2.0)


Changelog:
## 1.2.0 (2024-04-05)

### Features
* add commit linting 23ac6f1
* add release it changelog generation 821442f

? Create a release on GitHub (Release 1.2.0)? No

Thoughts?

[webpro]

I'm sorry, I meant NODE_DEBUG=release-it:* release-it [...]

https://github.com/release-it/release-it?tab=readme-ov-file#troubleshooting--debugging

[0xMurage]

Based on the details you provided on SO, it seems you have disabled git tagging. Without git tags and a reference point for analyzing the commits, everything since the beginning of your repository's commits will be included.

As a workaround, one need to provide the commit SHA or reference from the last changelog entries. Here’s how you can do that:

const LAST_COMMIT_REF = "80e627c";

module.exports = {

    plugins: {

        '@release-it/conventional-changelog': {
            infile: 'CHANGELOG.md',
            preset: 'conventionalcommits',
            type: [
               { "type": "feat","section": "Features"  },
               { "type": "fix",  "section": "Bug Fixes"   }
            ],
            gitRawCommitsOpts: {
                from: LAST_COMMIT_REF
            },
            commitsOpts: {
                from: LAST_COMMIT_REF, 
            },
        }
    }
}