Lerna always lists all packages ready to publish when running workflow of Github actions

Question

Lerna does not correctly detect packages change during running workflow of Github actions.

1. If I make none packages related changes, commit and runlerna up

Answer 1

After hours of debugging. I found the answer myself and thanks to @peterevans for the tip

You have to combine both

• fetch-depth: 0
• run: git fetch --depth=1 origin +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*

so that all git history and tag are exposed to lerna.

Answer 2

Wow - cannot believe that I've finally found a fix to the same issue - huge thanks!

I see this as a big issue with github actions (specifically @actions/checkout), and thus I've informed them here: https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/217

I've also informed the lerna folks here: https://github.com/lerna/lerna/issues/2542

and semantic-release people here: https://github.com/semantic-release/semantic-release/issues/1526

Thanks again! You've helped me save a lot of time & fix an annoying issue, and I hope I'll help others with this too. Cheers

Answer 3

There is also the option include-merged-tags

So this should also solve the problem:

lerna updated --include-merged-tags

or for publishing:

lerna publish --include-merged-tags