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ci: say what to do when the release PR can't be opened #21

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13 changes: 11 additions & 2 deletions .github/workflows/release.yml
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Auto-merges as a merge commit once CI and CodeQL pass. A squash would rewrite the commit and leave the tag outside master's history, which breaks the changelog range for the next release.
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url=$(gh pr create --base "$BASE" --head "$branch" \
--title "chore(release): v$VERSION" --body-file /tmp/pr-body.md)
# npm and the tag are already out by this point, so a failure here
# leaves master a version behind the registry. The usual cause is
# "Allow GitHub Actions to create and approve pull requests" being
# off, and the GITHUB_TOKEN has no scope to read that setting, so say
# what to do rather than let a bare GraphQL error stand.
if ! url=$(gh pr create --base "$BASE" --head "$branch" \
--title "chore(release): v$VERSION" --body-file /tmp/pr-body.md 2>&1); then
echo "$url"
echo "::error::v$VERSION is on npm and tagged, but the bump PR could not be opened, so master is behind. The branch $branch is pushed: open a PR from it and merge with a merge commit, not a squash. If the error mentions Actions not being permitted to create pull requests, turn that on under Settings > Actions > General."
exit 1
fi
number="${url##*/}"
echo "opened $url"

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