From 7fe5bb8956c0def511ddd60ecbaa092f9e7d5db4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mathieu Hofman <86499+mhofman@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2023 13:52:20 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] chore: change branch name used for creating releases (#8375)

To avoid conflicts with long standing release branches and their special CI treatment, use another branch name

Co-authored-by: mergify[bot] <37929162+mergify[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
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 MAINTAINERS.md | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS.md b/MAINTAINERS.md
index 86f89600357e..626080a453da 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS.md
+++ b/MAINTAINERS.md
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ in this branch. The release tags will be human-meaningful, the release branch ne
 ```sh
 # Create a release branch.
 now=`date -u +%Y%m%dT%H%M%S`
-git checkout -b release-$now
+git checkout -b prepare-release-$now
 ```
 
 - [ ] Do a `yarn install` to generate tooling needed for the release.