Allow specifying the previous tag when creating the changelog

[mcpierce]

As a release manager, I would like to have the changelog include everything for the current major release, not just the changes since the previous tag.

To accomplish this, it would be nice to have a configuration option that names the previous tag to use. If this option is present, then the generator would use that tag instead of the default behavior of finding it.

[marvinpinto]

I actually like the idea of noting down the current major release and using that as the backstop when searching for changelogs 👍

[mcpierce]

I actually like the idea of noting down the current major release and using that as the backstop when searching for changelogs 👍

Hi, circling back on a feature request I opened last year that lead to this one. Any chance of this feature making it into the code?