[ci] run Appveyor checks on PRs targeting release/ branches #5528
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Follow-up to #5527.
Contributes to #5525 .
I was wrong in #5527 ...
.appveyor.yml
in this repo DOES need to be modified to tell Appveyor to build on pull requests that targetrelease/*
branches.This PR proposes such a change.
See https://www.appveyor.com/docs/branches/ for docs on how Appveyor's preferred syntax expects such "match all branches following a pattern".
This change will help with the
v3.3.3
release, and I think it should be kept even after that to make such time-sensitive hotfix types of releases a bit easier in the future.How I tested this
Pushed a similar change to #5525, and that led to Appveyor successfully building on that PR that targets branch
release/v3.3.2
.