- introduce better handling of cases in which invalid references are provided, return an empty changelog and send out error

__tests__/main.test.ts

@@ -21,6 +21,23 @@ test('test runs', () => {
   console.log(cp.execSync(`node ${ip}`, options).toString())
 })
 */
+it('Should have empty changelog (tags)', async () => {
+  jest.setTimeout(180000)
+
+  const configuration = readConfiguration('configs/configuration.json')
+  const releaseNotes = new ReleaseNotes({
+    owner: 'mikepenz',
+    repo: 'release-changelog-builder-action',
+    fromTag: 'v0.0.1',
+    toTag: 'v0.0.2',
+    ignorePreReleases: false,
+    configuration: configuration
+  })
+
+  const changeLog = await releaseNotes.pull()
+  console.log(changeLog)
+  expect(changeLog).toStrictEqual(`- no changes`)
+})
 
 it('Should match generated changelog (tags)', async () => {
   jest.setTimeout(180000)

configs/configuration.json

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+{
+    "categories": [
+        {
+            "title": "## 🚀 Features",
+            "labels": ["feature"]
+        },
+        {
+            "title": "## 🐛 Fixes",
+            "labels": ["fix"]
+        },
+        {
+            "title": "## 🧪 Tests",
+            "labels": ["test"]
+        }
+    ],
+    "sort": "ASC",
+    "template": "${{CHANGELOG}}",
+    "pr_template": "- ${{TITLE}}\n   - PR: #${{NUMBER}}",
+    "empty_template": "- no changes"
+}

src/releaseNotes.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import {Octokit} from '@octokit/rest'
-import {Commits} from './commits'
+import { Commits, CommitInfo } from './commits';
 import {PullRequestInfo, PullRequests} from './pullRequests'
 import {buildChangelog} from './transform'
 import * as core from '@actions/core'
@@ -52,9 +52,7 @@ export class ReleaseNotes {
     const mergedPullRequests = await this.getMergedPullRequests(octokit)
 
     if (mergedPullRequests.length === 0) {
-      core.warning(
+      core.warning(`No pull requests found`)
-        `No pull requests found for between ${this.options.fromTag}...${toTag}`
-      )
       return configuration.empty_template
         ? configuration.empty_template
         : DefaultConfiguration.empty_template
@@ -70,9 +68,15 @@ export class ReleaseNotes {
     core.info(`Comparing ${owner}/${repo} - ${fromTag}...${toTag}`)
 
     const commitsApi = new Commits(octokit)
-    const commits = await commitsApi.getDiff(owner, repo, fromTag!!, toTag)
+    let commits: CommitInfo[]
-
+    try {
+      commits = await commitsApi.getDiff(owner, repo, fromTag!!, toTag)
+    } catch (error) {
+      core.error(`Failed to retrieve - Invalid tag? - Because of: ${error}`)
+      return []
+    }
     if (commits.length === 0) {
+      core.warning(`No commits found between - ${fromTag}...${toTag}`)
       return []
     }