From 369f7d4b2a89bf108874df5baee0b39bfcc4a5e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Meyer <49727155+katexochen@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2024 15:54:30 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] ci: remove git ahead check in release workflow

Signed-off-by: Paul Meyer <49727155+katexochen@users.noreply.github.com>
(cherry picked from commit fe6bce39816d52419d98df698b9581bb6e3b0e1b)
---
 .github/workflows/release.yml | 11 -----------
 1 file changed, 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index b613fdce00..d811dd12f4 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -88,17 +88,6 @@ jobs:
             echo "NEXT_PATCH_PRE_WITHOUT_V=${NEXT_PATCH_PRE_WITHOUT_V}"
           } | tee -a "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
           echo "RELEASE_BRANCH=${RELEASE_BRANCH}" | tee -a "$GITHUB_ENV"
-      - name: Check if we are strictly ahead of the release branch (if it exists)
-        run: |
-          git fetch
-          git pull
-          git checkout "${RELEASE_BRANCH}" || exit 0
-          git checkout "${WORKING_BRANCH}"
-          ahead=$(git rev-list HEAD --not "${RELEASE_BRANCH}"  | wc -l)
-          if [[ "${ahead}" -eq 0 ]]; then
-            echo "The current branch is not strictly ahead of the release branch. Please rebase."
-            exit 1
-          fi
 
   update-main:
     name: Update main branch