No tag found to do an incremental changelog

Description

I want to use commitizen in my repository and automatically bump vresion to pipy (and maybe someday conda-forge). Looking at the documentation I started with github actions that are still not compatible with my repository structure (I have a main branch and I’m working directly on it).

So I wanted to go with the CLI that looks exactly like what i needed:

I created a .cz.yaml file:

commitizen:
  changelog_file: CHANGELOG.md
  changelog_incremental: true
  changelog_start_rev: v0.12.9
  name: cz_conventional_commits
  tag_format: v$major.$minor.$patch$prerelease
  update_changelog_on_bump: true
  version: 0.12.10
  version_files:
  - setup.py:version
  - ost/__init__.py:__version__ 

and did little modifications

Steps to reproduce

When I run cz bump I get the following error message:

No tag found to do an incremental changelog

If I clean the changelog.md file, it works but I then only have the latest tag and not the previous one.

So I changed the .cz.yaml file to bump the changelog in a second step:

update_changelog_on_bump: false

Then the tag is created but running cz changelog end up with the same error message. When I print my tags they are all here even some that I don’t want to use:

$ git tag 

0.10.1
0.12.5
0.12.6
0.9.4
v0.12.10
v0.12.7
v0.12.8
v0.12.9

It looks like a chicken & egg problem, what did I miss in my configuration?

Environment

Commitizen Version: 2.20.2 Python Version: 3.8.3 (default, Oct 14 2020, 12:53:46) [Clang 11.0.3 (clang-1103.0.32.29)] Operating System: Darwin

[12rambau]

I’ll look at the test structure to see if I can generate more exotic version convention (vers_, version., v- etc) and check how they behave with the current value

[woile]

It works fine on my side. I cloned, run cz bump and the tag created was v_2.5.3 with the changelog.

My conf:

$ cz version
2.17.11

on ubuntu