@release-it/conventional-changelog - Option for no change log

[Zamiell]

Hello and thanks for the tool.

I am trying out release-it. In my monorepo, I use conventional commits, so I therefore want release-it to auto-increment the version based on the commit history. Thus, it seems like I need to use the @release-it/conventional-changelog plugin to do this. However, I don't want to generate a changelog. And it seems like this plugin always generates a changelog.

Will you accept a PR for a new option that disables the changelog?

[webpro]

Yes, that would be a good option to have. There's already ignoreRecommendedBump.

[pedrosodre]

Is that already possible? Also, can we ignore the changelog for a specific execution with a cli option (like --no-changelog)?

[fsmaia]

Is that already possible? Also, can we ignore the changelog for a specific execution with a cli option (like --no-changelog)?

This would be amazing!

[webpro]

Could somebody using this plugin please try to set "infile": false?

I just added a test for and seems to work as intended (40869a1).

[fsmaia]

It indeed works.

In my use case scenario, I want to skip the changelog for pre-releases. To achieve that, I would have to run a bash script that modifies the config file dynamically within my CI and then ignores this file in git so the working directory would be clean before triggering release-it, which seems to be hacky.

That's why a CLI flag would be handy!

I can help with coding if you will.

[fsmaia]

I figured out that the release-it's CLI-to-config behavior covers it:

npx release-it --plugins.'@release-it/conventional-changelog'.infile=''