From 20a9d4eaea6f0e5bdeabd82756a9e7ebee34a14e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: VU3ESV <vinodes@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2026 07:36:25 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] ci: fix gate step exit code (was failing the release)
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The gate's final '[ "$skip" = true ] && echo …' exited non-zero when
skip=false, failing the step; via needs: gate that skipped the release for
real changes. Use an if-block + harden the PR files API call with || true.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 .github/workflows/release.yml | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index d9187a2..a66c141 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ jobs:
             esac
             files="$(gh api --paginate "repos/${{ github.repository }}/compare/${{ github.event.before }}...${{ github.event.after }}" -q '.files[].filename' || true)"
           elif [ "$ev" = "pull_request" ]; then
-            files="$(gh api --paginate "repos/${{ github.repository }}/pulls/${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}/files" -q '.[].filename')"
+            files="$(gh api --paginate "repos/${{ github.repository }}/pulls/${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}/files" -q '.[].filename' || true)"
           else
             echo "skip=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"; exit 0
           fi
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ jobs:
             esac
           done <<< "$files"
           echo "skip=$skip" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-          [ "$skip" = true ] && echo "::notice::Docs-only change — skipping release."
+          if [ "$skip" = true ]; then echo "::notice::Docs-only change — skipping release."; fi
 
   release:
     needs: gate