Issues when adding release-plan to fresh project

[beerinho]

I tried to add release-plan to an almost brand new svelte add-on app and after a straight-forward setup the initial PR gave this error:

release prepare

Edits the package.json and changelog files to prepare for release.

Options:
--version Show version number [boolean]
--help Show help [boolean]
--fromStdin Read the summary of changes from stdin instead of building
them from scratch. [boolean]
--singlePackage Allows you to run this command in a non monorepo and define
the package name [string]

Error: Command failed with exit code 1: node /home/runner/work/svelte-concurrency/svelte-concurrency/node_modules/.pnpm/@[email protected]/node_modules/@ef4/lerna-changelog/bin/cli.js --next-version Release
Error: Command failed with exit code 128: git describe --abbrev=0 --tags
fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
at makeError (/home/runner/work/svelte-concurrency/svelte-concurrency/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/execa/lib/error.js:60:11)
at module.exports.sync (/home/runner/work/svelte-concurrency/svelte-concurrency/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/execa/index.js:194:17)
at Object.lastTag (/home/runner/work/svelte-concurrency/svelte-concurrency/node_modules/.pnpm/@[email protected]/node_modules/@ef4/lerna-changelog/lib/git.js:31:18)
at Changelog. (/home/runner/work/svelte-concurrency/svelte-concurrency/node_modules/.pnpm/@[email protected]/node_modules/@ef4/lerna-changelog/lib/changelog.js:32:56)
at Generator.next ()
at /home/runner/work/svelte-concurrency/svelte-concurrency/node_modules/.pnpm/@[email protected]/node_modules/@ef4/lerna-changelog/lib/changelog.js:8:71
at new Promise ()
at __awaiter (/home/runner/work/svelte-concurrency/svelte-concurrency/node_modules/.pnpm/@[email protected]/node_modules/@ef4/lerna-changelog/lib/changelog.js:4:12)
at Changelog.createMarkdown (/home/runner/work/svelte-concurrency/svelte-concurrency/node_modules/.pnpm/@[email protected]/node_modules/@ef4/lerna-changelog/lib/changelog.js:31:16)
at Object. (/home/runner/work/svelte-concurrency/svelte-concurrency/node_modules/.pnpm/@[email protected]/node_modules/@ef4/lerna-changelog/lib/cli.js:77:64)
at makeError (/home/runner/work/svelte-concurrency/svelte-concurrency/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/execa/lib/error.js:59:11)
at handlePromise (/home/runner/work/svelte-concurrency/svelte-concurrency/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/execa/index.js:114:26)
at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
at async gatherChanges (file:///home/runner/work/svelte-concurrency/svelte-concurrency/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/release-plan/dist/gather-changes.js:8:20)
at async newChangelogContent (file:///home/runner/work/svelte-concurrency/svelte-concurrency/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/release-plan/dist/cli.js:78:19)
at async Object.handler (file:///home/runner/work/svelte-concurrency/svelte-concurrency/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/release-plan/dist/cli.js:14:36) {
shortMessage: 'Command failed with exit code 1: node /home/runner/work/svelte-concurrency/svelte-concurrency/node_modules/.pnpm/@[email protected]/node_modules/@ef4/lerna-changelog/bin/cli.js --next-version Release',
command: 'node /home/runner/work/svelte-concurrency/svelte-concurrency/node_modules/.pnpm/@[email protected]/node_modules/@ef4/lerna-changelog/bin/cli.js --next-version Release',
exitCode: 1,
signal: undefined,
signalDescription: undefined,
stdout: 'Error: Command failed with exit code 128: git describe --abbrev=0 --tags\n' +
'fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.\n' +
' at makeError (/home/runner/work/svelte-concurrency/svelte-concurrency/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/execa/lib/error.js:60:11)\n' +
' at module.exports.sync (/home/runner/work/svelte-concurrency/svelte-concurrency/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/execa/index.js:194:17)\n' +
' at Object.lastTag (/home/runner/work/svelte-concurrency/svelte-concurrency/node_modules/.pnpm/@[email protected]/node_modules/@ef4/lerna-changelog/lib/git.js:31:18)\n' +
' at Changelog. (/home/runner/work/svelte-concurrency/svelte-concurrency/node_modules/.pnpm/@[email protected]/node_modules/@ef4/lerna-changelog/lib/changelog.js:32:56)\n' +
' at Generator.next ()\n' +
' at /home/runner/work/svelte-concurrency/svelte-concurrency/node_modules/.pnpm/@[email protected]/node_modules/@ef4/lerna-changelog/lib/changelog.js:8:71\n' +
' at new Promise ()\n' +
' at __awaiter (/home/runner/work/svelte-concurrency/svelte-concurrency/node_modules/.pnpm/@[email protected]/node_modules/@ef4/lerna-changelog/lib/changelog.js:4:12)\n' +
' at Changelog.createMarkdown (/home/runner/work/svelte-concurrency/svelte-concurrency/node_modules/.pnpm/@[email protected]/node_modules/@ef4/lerna-changelog/lib/changelog.js:31:16)\n' +
' at Object. (/home/runner/work/svelte-concurrency/svelte-concurrency/node_modules/.pnpm/@[email protected]/node_modules/@ef4/lerna-changelog/lib/cli.js:77:64)',
stderr: '',
failed: true,
timedOut: false,
isCanceled: false,
killed: false
}

We deduced it might be because there wasn't a previous github tag to compare against, so we added one but after adding a tag for the repo and rerunning the action manually we got this error instead:

release prepare

Edits the package.json and changelog files to prepare for release.

Options:
--version Show version number [boolean]
--help Show help [boolean]
--fromStdin Read the summary of changes from stdin instead of building
them from scratch. [boolean]
--singlePackage Allows you to run this command in a non monorepo and define
the package name [string]

Error: Command failed with exit code 1: node /home/runner/work/svelte-concurrency/svelte-concurrency/node_modules/.pnpm/@[email protected]/node_modules/@ef4/lerna-changelog/bin/cli.js --next-version Release
Fetch error: Forbidden.
{"message":"Resource not accessible by integration","documentation_url":"[https://docs.github.com/rest/issues/issues#get-an-issue"}](https://docs.github.com/rest/issues/issues#get-an-issue%22%7D)
at makeError (/home/runner/work/svelte-concurrency/svelte-concurrency/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/execa/lib/error.js:59:11)
at handlePromise (/home/runner/work/svelte-concurrency/svelte-concurrency/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/execa/index.js:114:26)
at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
at async gatherChanges (file:///home/runner/work/svelte-concurrency/svelte-concurrency/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/release-plan/dist/gather-changes.js:8:20)
at async newChangelogContent (file:///home/runner/work/svelte-concurrency/svelte-concurrency/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/release-plan/dist/cli.js:78:19)
at async Object.handler (file:///home/runner/work/svelte-concurrency/svelte-concurrency/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/release-plan/dist/cli.js:14:36) {
shortMessage: 'Command failed with exit code 1: node /home/runner/work/svelte-concurrency/svelte-concurrency/node_modules/.pnpm/@[email protected]/node_modules/@ef4/lerna-changelog/bin/cli.js --next-version Release',
command: 'node /home/runner/work/svelte-concurrency/svelte-concurrency/node_modules/.pnpm/@[email protected]/node_modules/@ef4/lerna-changelog/bin/cli.js --next-version Release',
exitCode: 1,
signal: undefined,
signalDescription: undefined,
stdout: 'Fetch error: Forbidden.\n' +
'{"message":"Resource not accessible by integration","documentation_url":"[https://docs.github.com/rest/issues/issues#get-an-issue"}](https://docs.github.com/rest/issues/issues#get-an-issue%22%7D)',
stderr: '',
failed: true,
timedOut: false,
isCanceled: false,
killed: false
}

It turns out the reason was that the repo we were setting it up on was private (and possibly has some Org settings we can't control). So I think it's worth adding to the readme that this can happen.

After making the repo public it worked like a charm! 🎉