Changelog generator hangs indefinitely when using excluded tags

[tobon4]

Describe the bug

A repository containing 100+ tags: In the repository 5 services reside. Since there is no option to use "include-tags" we need
to exclude tags. For some reason the generator gets completely stuck. This does not happen in other repositories.

It's not possible to see any log or verbose output, since this is not available upon cancelation of the action/workflow.

Question: How do troubleshoot this further? We suspect some tag(s) are causing the problem, or some issue with the history
in the repository.

(We haven't run it locally yet, perhaps that is needed as the next step, but please guide us forward)

To Reproduce

N/A: Since this is only in one of our private repositories the chance of reproducing the problem on your side is slim.
The only thing I can attach is a screenshot. Let me know what else to attach.

Expected behavior
The generator should not hang indefinitely. It should error out at some point if there is a problem.

Screenshots

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• GitHub runner, ubuntu-20.04. We use either https://github.com/charmixer/auto-changelog-action or https://github.com/heinrichreimer/action-github-changelog-generator

• name: Generate Changelog
  uses: heinrichreimer/[email protected]
  with:
  token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
  excludeTags: BROR1.0.1,BROR1.1,BROR2.0,BROR2.1,BROR2.1.2,BROR2.2,BROR2.3,BROR2.3.1,

Smartphone (please complete the following information):
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Additional context
Add any other context about the problem here.

[aloknj]

github_changelog_generator --user=$USER --project=$PROJECT --max-issues 100`

While executing above CLI command, tools hangs indefinitely:

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Warning: Can't find any tags in repo. Make sure, that you push tags to remote repo via 'git push --tags'
Fetching tags dates: 0/0
Sorting tags...
Received issues: 100
Pull Request count: 2276
Filtered pull requests: 98
Filtered issues: 0
Fetching events for issues and PR: 98
Fetching closed dates for issues: 98/98

Hangs indefinitely ...