Refactoring draft notes generation

.gitignore

@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 bin
 *.txt
 artifacts
-bin
+draft_notes.md

generate_notes.py

@@ -49,14 +49,20 @@ def draft():
 
             # Get the current and previous tags
             tags = subprocess.check_output(["git", "tag", "--sort=creatordate"], text=True)
-            tags = [tag for tag in tags.split("\n") if tag]
-            tags.reverse()
-            current_tag, previous_tag, *_ = tags
-            formatted_lines = subprocess.check_output(["git", "log", f"{current_tag}...{previous_tag}", f'--pretty=format:"*  %s"'], text=True)
-            lines = "\n".join([line.replace("\"", "") for line in formatted_lines.split("\n") if all(["merge" not in line.lower(), "changelog.md" not in line.lower()])])
-            fw.write(lines)
-            fw.write("\n\n")
-            fw.write(f"Compare between recent changes: [{previous_tag[1:]}...{current_tag[1:]}]({remote_url}/compare/{previous_tag}...{current_tag})")
+            if tags:
+                tags = [tag for tag in tags.split("\n") if tag]
+                tags.reverse()
+                current_tag, previous_tag, *_ = tags
+                formatted_lines = subprocess.check_output(["git", "log", f"{current_tag}...{previous_tag}", f'--pretty=format:"*  %s"'], text=True)
+                lines = "\n".join([line.replace("\"", "") for line in formatted_lines.split("\n") if all(["merge" not in line.lower(), "changelog.md" not in line.lower()])])
+                fw.write(lines)
+                fw.write("\n\n")
+                fw.write(f"Compare between recent changes: [{previous_tag[1:]}...{current_tag[1:]}]({remote_url}/compare/{previous_tag}...{current_tag})")
+            else:
+                # first tag
+                formatted_lines = subprocess.check_output(["git", "log", f'--pretty=format:"*  %s"'], text=True)
+                lines = "\n".join([line.replace("\"", "") for line in formatted_lines.split("\n") if all(["merge" not in line.lower(), "changelog.md" not in line.lower()])])
+                fw.write(lines)
         except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
             print(f"Command failed with return code {e.returncode}")