feat(release)!: match nx affected behavior to determine relevant conventional commits

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Current Behavior

Nx Release currently only checks for commits with affected files changed under the root of projects configured for release.
However, changes to other files may affect and invalidate these projects also.

Expected Behavior

Reuse Nx's affected logic to determine when commits contain changes that affect the projects configured for release.

BREAKING CHANGE: More files are now being used to determine relevant commits, meaning there is higher chance for projects to receive version bumps

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☁️ Nx Cloud last updated this comment at 2025-10-03 14:41:33 UTC

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Nx Cloud is proposing a fix for your failed CI:

The test expectations have been updated to match the new affected-based behavior introduced by this PR. With the changes, pkg2 now correctly receives a minor version bump (1.5.0 → 1.6.0) when its dependency pkg3 changes, which is the intended behavior of using Nx's affected logic for determining relevant commits.

We verified this fix by re-running e2e-release:e2e-ci--src/independent-projects.test.ts.

Suggested Fix changes

diff --git a/e2e/release/src/independent-projects.test.ts b/e2e/release/src/independent-projects.test.ts
index bfc4afaa07..17d271af41 100644
--- a/e2e/release/src/independent-projects.test.ts
+++ b/e2e/release/src/independent-projects.test.ts
@@ -1000,7 +1000,7 @@ describe('debug nx release - independent projects', () => {
             'g'
           )
         ).length
-      ).toEqual(1);
+      ).toEqual(2);
       expect(
         releaseOutput.match(
           new RegExp(
@@ -1015,6 +1015,15 @@ describe('debug nx release - independent projects', () => {
         ).length
       ).toEqual(1);
 
+      expect(
+        releaseOutput.match(
+          new RegExp(
+            `New version 1\\.6\\.0 written to manifest: my-pkg-2\\d*`,
+            'g'
+          )
+        ).length
+      ).toEqual(1);
+
       expect(
         releaseOutput.match(
           new RegExp(

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