Changelog includes commits not on the release branch

[mcpierce]

For my project I'm using charmixer/auto-changelog-action as a wrapper to run github-changelog-generator. My configuration for that action produces the following command line when it runs:

github_changelog_generator --user comixed --project comixed --release-branch refs/tags/v0.6.0-0.rc8 --output CHANGELOG.md --token *** --since-tag v0.5.2-2 --due-tag v0.6.0-0.rc8

The generated ChangeLog file includes commits that are not on the release branch named. I've also changed the release branch to reference specifically to our release branch, which produced the following command line:

github_changelog_generator --user comixed --project comixed --release-branch release/0.6 --output CHANGELOG.md --token *** --since-tag v0.5.2-2 --due-tag v0.6.0-0.rc8 

The problem is that, in both cases, the generated CHANGELOG.md file keeps include an issue that is not on the release branch.

I finally tried telling it to no include any unreleased changes (which includes the above mentioned issue) and it produced a changelog with nothing in it.

Is this a bug or a use error?

[mcpierce]

Revisiting this: we just pushed an update of our project and, again, the changelog created includes commits from the develop branch that are not in the release. I'm afraid of this confusing the users into thinking those features are present when they're not.

Can someone point out if this is a usage issue and, if so, how do I fix it?

[mcpierce]

Ping - Any chance of getting a response on this? If it's not a bug then pointing to what I'm doing wrong would be greatly appreciated.