Changelog in root directory

[thejasonxie]

Hi, I have an issue generating the CHANGELOG.md in the root directory when pnpm exec lerna version --conventional-commits is used. Only changelog within the packages directory are generated. I am using pnpm workspaces

lerna.json:

{
  "$schema": "node_modules/@lerna-lite/cli/schemas/lerna-schema.json",
  "version": "independent",
  "npmClient": "pnpm",
  "command": {
    "publish": {
      "conventionalCommits": true,
      "message": "chore(release): publish new version %v",
      "registry": "https://npm.pkg.github.com"
    }
  },
  "packages": ["packages/*"]
}

pnpm-workspace.yaml

packages:
  # all packages in direct subdirs of packages/
  - "packages/*"
  # exclude packages that are inside test directories
  - "!**/test/**"

I'm fairly new to lerna in general so I'm not sure if its a bug so I opened a discussion instead of an issue. Thank you for your work with lerna-lite!

[ghiscoding]

I'm not sure why you're using pnpm exec, is there a reason why you didn't simply use a regular npm script? I always use npm scripts and it works fine, I would suggest to watch the youtube video that I've referenced on the main readme page
https://github.com/lerna-lite/lerna-lite#good-lerna-tutorials--references

Lerna-Lite also uses pnpm, so you could also take a look at the config that I use in this project. You should probably use npm scripts like I mentioned.

[thejasonxie]

I used pnpm exec because I didn't want to install it globaly and i also have pnpm usage enforced. I'm wondering if its because i set "version" to "independent" in the lerna.json file?

This repo that uses lerna-lite uses independent version and don't have a changelog in the root.

[thejasonxie]

That was the issue. I set the version to 0.0.0 in lerna.json and that generate a changelog in the root directory.

On the side note, i noticed that the %v in the command.publish.message doesn't work properly when "version" is set to "independent"

when I used a version number instead, it resolved it.

[ghiscoding]

I don't think %v can be used with independent, I'm not sure since I didn't create Lerna, I only forked it to create Lerna-Lite and I never used the independent mode myself... and I just checked the documentation and it does say that it only works with fixed version mode (which mean that it doesn't work with independent mode), I highlighted in bold the section that concerns your use case

https://github.com/lerna-lite/lerna-lite/tree/main/packages/version#--message-msg

If the message contains %s, it will be replaced with the new global version version number prefixed with a "v". If the message contains %v, it will be replaced with the new global version version number without the leading "v". Note that this placeholder interpolation only applies when using the default "fixed" versioning mode, as there is no "global" version to interpolate when versioning independently.