Merge Commits leading to Duplicate Changelog Entries

[yzietz-ionos]

Hey guys,

I'm having the issue for some time now, that the release-please app is creating duplicate entries for the same change in case my history contains a merge commit of a feature branch. For example:

commit 903930805b446f7f390845adb356c295392260e1
Merge: 8c9b50d f0735d9
Author: xyz
Date:   Mon Feb 3 15:29:31 2025 +0100

    Merge pull request #178 from BLA/feature/some-feature

    feat: change smth

commit f0735d97ed27f93a50d4323af03f8a0b81210c92 (origin/feature/some-feature, feature/some-feature)
Author: xyz
Date:   Mon Feb 3 15:24:27 2025 +0100

    feat: change smth

leading to

## [1.1.0](https://github.com/BLA/BLUB/compare/v1.0.2...v1.1.0) (2025-02-11)


### Features

* change smth ([9039308](https://github.com/BLA/BLUB/commit/903930805b446f7f390845adb356c295392260e1))
* change smth ([f0735d9](https://github.com/BLA/BLUB/commit/f0735d97ed27f93a50d4323af03f8a0b81210c92))

My unproven assumption is, that #2358 is the cause of that behaviour.

Therefor to my questions:

1. Can you confirm my assumption or may there be another cause?
2. Is there a mitigation for that problem other than avoiding merge commits?

Thanks in advance!