- Tag sha will now be used also if there is a gitHead in last release and it's not in the history
- Use `git merge-base` to determine if a commit is in history, allowing to use CI creating detached head repo
- Mention recovery solution by creating a version tag in `ENOTINHISTORY` and `ENOGITHEAD` error messages
- Do not mention branches containing missing commit in `ENOTINHISTORY` and `ENOGITHEAD` error messages as it's not available by default on most CI
Add several fixes and improvements in the identification of the last release gitHead:
- If there is no last release, unshallow the repo in order to retrieve all existing commits
- If git head is not present in last release, try to retrieve it from git tag with format ‘v\<version\>’ or ‘\<version\>’
- If the last release git head cannot be determined and found in commit history, unshallow the repo and try again
- Throw a ENOGITHEAD error if the gitHead for the last release cannot be found in the npm metadata nor in the git tags, preventing to make release based on the all the commits in the repo as before
- Add integration test for the scenario with a packed repo from which `npm republish` fails to read the git head
Fix#447, Fix#393, Fix#280, Fix#276
- Use async/await instead of callbacks
- Use execa to run command line
- Use AVA for tests
- Add several assertions in the unit tests
- Add documentation (comments) in the tests
- Run tests with a real git repo instead of mocking child_process and add test helpers to create repos, commits and checkout
- Simplify test directory structure
- Simplify code readability (mostly with async/await)
- Use eslint for for linting, prettier for formatting
target_commitish in GitHub Releases has two different meanings:
* Target commit that a new associated tag will be created on
* Target branch to compute how many "commits to since this release"
target_commitish is usually the default branch (aka master), because the
distance between the release and the latest branch is the primary concern.
Before this change, target_commitish was left to be a hash and the
feature of GitHub Releases that shows how much time passed since the
release is ruined, because no tracking branch is given.
By this change, target_commitish is changed to be the default branch
given in the configuration (options.branch) via edit a release API after
the release and tag are created via crate a release API.
