chore(ci): configure git identity for release notes backfill#5323
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The script seeds semantic-release channel notes for prior tags so the lastRelease lookup sees prior betas on the beta channel. `git notes add` requires a committer identity, which CI runners don't ship in ~/.gitconfig - so seeding silently failed (errors were swallowed by .nothrow()), the beta tags looked uncategorised, and semantic-release fell back to the previous stable as lastRelease and reset the beta counter to .1. Locally the developer's global git identity masked the bug. Configure user.email/user.name and disable commit/tag signing on the temp clone, and drop `.nothrow()` on the seeding call so any future breakage surfaces immediately instead of masquerading as a wrong-version mismatch downstream.
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Fixes a silent failure in the
backfill-release-notesscript wheregit notes addwould fail in CI environments that lack a configured git committer identity and GPG signing setup.Changes:
commit.gpgsignandtag.gpgsignin the clone to prevent failures when global signing config is inherited but no signing key is available.nothrow()from thegit notes addcall since the git config is now properly set up and failures should be surfacedThis ensures that semantic-release can correctly identify prior beta tags and compute the correct next version during the backfill process.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01FX5hRgt2dXeZzMoLGcyU9A