Changelog action shouldn't delete fragments on pre-release #1137
Description
📝 Description of the feature
The changelog action currently deletes all consolidated changelog fragments on creating a pre-release changelog. This isn't great, because it means if one does a release candidate followed immediately by a release, there are no changes included in the release because they were all previously released in the candidate. Since most users won't look at the changes for a pre-release build, these are essentially lost.
It would be better if they either weren't deleted for a pre-release build (each pre-release for a given release would contain all changelog fragments up until that point) or were stashed in a separate folder.
A workaround currently used by PyGranta packages is to decline the PR against main and to revert the automatic commit following pre-release publishing on the release branch.
💡 Steps for implementing the feature
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🔗 Useful links and references
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