--ignoreChanges is not respected.

Lerna Version: 8.1.9

Current Behavior

Hi all,

I'm running into an issue where in my CICD pipeline, I do a hotswap of .npmrc for an alternative cicd.npmrc with a mv cicd.npmrc .npmrc command prior to running lerna version/lerna publish

I've tried configuring Lerna according to the documentation and various issues I've seen around this, with my lerna.json configured as so:

{
  "$schema": "node_modules/lerna/schemas/lerna-schema.json",
  "version": "independent",
  "command": {
    "publish": {
      "ignoreChanges": [
        ".npmrc",
        "cicd.npmrc"
      ]
    }
  },
  "packages": [
    "packages/*"
  ]
}

I've also tried configuring my lerna CLI as such

npx lerna publish --ignore-changes 'cicd.npmrc' '.npmrc' --canary --exact --dist-tag ${CI_COMMIT_REF_SLUG} --preid "${CI_COMMIT_REF_SLUG}-${CI_COMMIT_SHORT_SHA}" --yes ${FORCED_PKGLIST} --concurrency 1

However end result is I get this output

Expected Behavior

As far as I can tell, the issue is that the code for checking the working directory here

https://github.com/lerna/lerna/blob/c3e601bee1bd6416e8b067ec8121abd996163d86/libs/core/src/lib/collect-uncommitted.ts#L32

completely ignores the configuration that's passed in. I would expect the ignoreChanges configuration to work as expected.

Related Issues

It seems like this may be related to this issue https://github.com/lerna/lerna/issues/2522 which was never resolved.

Start with libs/core/src/lib/collect-uncommitted.ts at the linked check, then trace how ignoreChanges from lerna.json and the --ignore-changes CLI option reaches it. Reproduce the CICD .npmrc swap with lerna version or publish and confirm that the configured .npmrc and cicd.npmrc changes are ignored.