Changes detection only based on commits (like standard-version)

[farfromrefug]

Clear and concise description of the problem

Right now changes are based on files.
This actually create some issues of changes not detected in all my lerna projects. And i now know why. my packages are built into output dirs which are not committed. It is then those output folders that i use as lerna "packages". Thus it cant see changes.
It finally makes sense.

Suggested solution

Another way of detecting changes is simply to look at conventional commits and see if you find some which are not ignored (scope).
This is what standard-version does.
i think it is a better way because it does not rely on files/folders.
Then remains the detection of which packages have changed. It could also be done by looking at the location of the files modified in the found commits (i think it is also what standard-version does)

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[ghiscoding]

if you want to work on this then fine but otherwise I personally will not work on this since it's outside the goal of this project (maintenance is the main goal). I did implement new features, but this one is way out of my comfort zone and I'm not planning on working on this. So unless you want to work on this yourself great, if not I'll close this request (sorry).

[farfromrefug]

@ghiscoding I might work on this yes. Just not sure when. So would be nice to leave this open.