release-plz owns the workspace version and the changelog, and writes both on
master. Nothing carried either back, so develop still declared 14.1.2 five
releases after v14.1.2 shipped. Nightly builds the tip of develop, which meant
every nightly binary reported --version 14.1.2 against a released 18.0.0, and
the changelog on the branch the work happens on stopped at v14.1.2 too.
The job merges master whole rather than cherry-picking the bump, so the
changelog travels with it, and hangs off `release` rather than `binaries` so the
sync does not wait on six binary builds. develop never edits those lines itself,
which is what keeps the merge clean; a conflict fails the job rather than
resolving itself quietly. Nothing in the repository triggers on a push to
develop, so this neither loops back into the workflow nor spends a CI run.
Michel de Graaf
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