- introduce new additional placeholders useable for building the changelog

| **Placeholder**            | **Description**                                                                                    | **Empty** |
|----------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:---------:|
| `${{CHANGED_FILES}}`       | The count of changed files.                                                                        |           |
| `${{ADDITIONS}}`           | The count of code additions (lines).                                                               |           |
| `${{DELETIONS}}`           | The count of code deletions (lines).                                                               |           |
| `${{CHANGES}}`             | The count of total changes (lines).                                                                |           |
| `${{COMMITS}}`             | The count of commits in this release.                                                              |           |

- restructure project to return additional diff related information along the individual commits
- update testcases to verify functionality of new placeholders

src/releaseNotesBuilder.ts

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ import {Octokit} from '@octokit/rest'
 import {ReleaseNotes} from './releaseNotes'
 import {Tags} from './tags'
 import {failOrError} from './utils'
-import {fillAdditionalPlaceholders} from './transform'
 
 export class ReleaseNotesBuilder {
   constructor(
@@ -98,13 +97,6 @@ export class ReleaseNotesBuilder {
     }
     const releaseNotes = new ReleaseNotes(octokit, options)
 
-    return (
-      (await releaseNotes.pull()) ||
-      fillAdditionalPlaceholders(
-        this.configuration.empty_template ||
-          DefaultConfiguration.empty_template,
-        options
-      )
-    )
+    return await releaseNotes.pull()
   }
 }