Possible to use changie in a github action for pull requests?

[anrico-oltmanns]

In our organization, we merge everything to "develop". Once a week or bi-weekly we merge everything from "develop" to "master". We want to have a list of all the issues associated with the PR in the PR description based on the commits, which are linked to the issues (with #issue-number).

So basically, I want to have the change logs from changie in our master PR description. Is it possible? Ive tried a lot of things but nothing seemed to work. Also, I couldnt find a workaround for our specific case yet.

[miniscruff]

I have built a GitHub action that should get you started: https://github.com/miniscruff/changie-action
Changie itself has a GitHub workflow that creates a PR for releases here: https://github.com/miniscruff/changie/blob/main/.github/workflows/gen-release-pr.yml just replace go run main.go with the action above.
You can use the newly generated version file as the body of the PR as well.

[anrico-oltmanns]

Maybe Im missing the fundamentals. When using the github action you mentioned here I Already get the error message open .changie.yml: no such file or directory + Error: The process '/opt/hostedtoolcache/changie-action/1.10.2/x64/changie' failed with exit code 1

and yes, im sure that the PAT im using has every required permission.

[miniscruff]

The error you posted is due to a missing config file changie needs to run. Are you using changie to manage your changelogs currently?

[miniscruff]

I may have misunderstood the original question, are you asking to use changie purely for this one PR and not using changie in each PR/change? If so, no changie will not work that way. You would have to use changie for every change in order to generate the fragments needed to build the release notes, changelog and PR description. It will not work only on PR numbers or anything like that.

[anrico-oltmanns]

Alright. Yea, that was my original question. Just using it for this one PR. Thank you for your help. Ill look for another tool then 👍

[miniscruff]

You might be able to use the github release note autogeneration but not sure.