Failing at basic multirepo use

[martypdx]

Trying to add changesets in a pnpm monorepo. I did:

> pnpm add -D @changesets/cli
> pnpm changesets init
> pnpm changesets

But it only wants to publish the root package.json (which is just the monrepo root, not a package), which is set to private: true.

Everything suggests changesets is meant to thrive in multi-package repos. So what I am I missing?

[altano]

You probably have a version in your package.json. changesets will try to version anything with a version, even private packages, unless you set the "privatePackages": false option in your config.json, which would cause it to ignore private packages regardless of the presence of a version.

[martypdx]

@altano trying any of those options causes this error:

📂 azoth 🚀 pnpm changeset
🦋  error TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'packageJson')
🦋  error     at createChangeset (/Users/marty/dev/azothjs/azoth/node_modules/.pnpm/@changesets+cli@2.27.1/node_modules/@changesets/cli/dist/changesets-cli.cjs.js:392:75)
🦋  error     at add (/Users/marty/dev/azothjs/azoth/node_modules/.pnpm/@changesets+cli@2.27.1/node_modules/@changesets/cli/dist/changesets-cli.cjs.js:506:26)
🦋  error     at async run (/Users/marty/dev/azothjs/azoth/node_modules/.pnpm/@changesets+cli@2.27.1/node_modules/@changesets/cli/dist/changesets-cli.cjs.js:1304:5)
📂 azoth 🚀 pnpm changeset
🦋  error TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'packageJson')
🦋  error     at createChangeset (/Users/marty/dev/azothjs/azoth/node_modules/.pnpm/@changesets+cli@2.27.1/node_modules/@changesets/cli/dist/changesets-cli.cjs.js:392:75)
🦋  error     at add (/Users/marty/dev/azothjs/azoth/node_modules/.pnpm/@changesets+cli@2.27.1/node_modules/@changesets/cli/dist/changesets-cli.cjs.js:506:26)
🦋  error     at async run (/Users/marty/dev/azothjs/azoth/node_modules/.pnpm/@changesets+cli@2.27.1/node_modules/@changesets/cli/dist/changesets-cli.cjs.js:1304:5)

I spent a little time debugging, but it goes through a lot of node/babel polyfill code and is hard to do so from the dist module. But it looks like it is only finding one package initially, then failing when it gets here.

[altano]

@martypdx if you post a repro on stackblitz I’ll try to help.