Steve Mao

I understand, but hard to pass all options through cli. Need to find a better way to do this.

If you set `config.gitRawCommitsOpts.merge` to true, shouldn't it overwrite the default value? Maybe add a unit test to clarify?

@nfantone you need a config file to pass option in.

I think instead of hacking this one, we should look at how to pass in options in general. Currently not all options are available in cli but the api is...

@myii are you only using angular preset or do you supply your own https://github.com/conventional-changelog/conventional-changelog/tree/master/packages/conventional-commits-parser#referenceactions?

Is there any repo to replicate this problem?

lerna is already using `conventional-changelog`. I guess we should document it.

Thanks for the PR. I'm also wondering if we should maintain these additional logic here? My preference is to make it pluggable so that the logics can live in any...

`standard-version --first-release` doesn't work for you?

I feel like this feature should live here too by adding another flag...