Merge pull request #1314 from snyk/fix/changelog-script

Handle patch releases in changelog script

Author: eliecharra

scripts/changelog.sh

@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
+# This script compare merged pull requests between the two most recent tags
 # Please note that this script only work with Github repositories.
 # Prerequisites: git, github cli
 
 GHCLI_BIN="gh"
 REPO="snyk/driftctl"
-LATEST_TAG=$(git describe --abbrev=0) # Get the least created tag
-DEFAULT_BRANCH=origin/HEAD
-BASE=$DEFAULT_BRANCH # Change this if you don't want to use the default branch as base
+LATEST_TAG=$(git for-each-ref --sort=-taggerdate --format '%(tag)' refs/tags | sed -n 1p) # Get the last created tag
+CURRENT_BRANCH=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)
+BASE=$(git for-each-ref --sort=-taggerdate --format '%(tag)' refs/tags | sed -n 2p) # Use $CURRENT_BRANCH instead to get a pre-release changelog
 
 # Check GH cli is installed
 if ! which $GHCLI_BIN &> /dev/null; then