From 258a09385756a2e44d1f894db0c73953c4cce3e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: parbez <imranbarbhuiya.fsd@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2022 23:33:28 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] feat: create an empty changelog file for first release

---
 src/lib/createFile.ts       |  9 +++++++++
 src/lib/preflight-checks.ts | 18 +++++++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 src/lib/createFile.ts

diff --git a/src/lib/createFile.ts b/src/lib/createFile.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d414788
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/createFile.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+import { Result } from '@sapphire/result';
+import type { PathLike } from 'node:fs';
+import { writeFile } from 'node:fs/promises';
+
+export async function createFile(path: PathLike) {
+  const result = await Result.fromAsync<unknown, Error>(() => writeFile(path, ''));
+
+  return !result.isErr();
+}
diff --git a/src/lib/preflight-checks.ts b/src/lib/preflight-checks.ts
index 9bc5dd9..ee6d2ee 100644
--- a/src/lib/preflight-checks.ts
+++ b/src/lib/preflight-checks.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import { doActionAndLog, readJson } from '#lib/utils';
 import { isNullishOrEmpty } from '@sapphire/utilities';
 import type { OptionValues } from 'commander';
 import { join } from 'path';
+import { createFile } from './createFile';
 
 export async function preflightChecks(options: OptionValues) {
   if (isNullishOrEmpty(options.name)) {
@@ -72,11 +73,18 @@ export async function preflightChecks(options: OptionValues) {
     );
 
     if (!hasChangelogFileAtCwd) {
-      logVerboseError({
-        text: ['No CHANGELOG.md detected at current directory'],
-        exitAfterLog: true,
-        verbose: options.verbose
-      });
+      if (options.firstRelease) {
+        await doActionAndLog(
+          'Creating an empty CHANGELOG.md file in the current working directory', //
+          createFile(join(packageCwd, 'CHANGELOG.md'))
+        );
+      } else {
+        logVerboseError({
+          text: ['No CHANGELOG.md detected at current directory'],
+          exitAfterLog: true,
+          verbose: options.verbose
+        });
+      }
     }
 
     const hasGitCliff = await doActionAndLog(