feat(release): configure when all branches should be checked for a matching releaseTagPattern

[JamesHenry]

Current Behavior

We always check the current branch for matches for releaseTagPattern and use the latest one of those as the source of truth. We only fall back to checking all branches in case of no matches on the current branch.

In some workflows (e.g. with hotfix branches that received tags getting merged back into trunk) this can lead to an undesired match (because the desired tag was not applied to the trunk branch when the hotfix branch was merged).

Expected Behavior

There is a new releaseTagPatternCheckAllBranchesWhen which controls this behaviour, leaving the default (i.e. the option is undefined) unchanged.

To change the above default behaviour you can:

• Set "releaseTagPatternCheckAllBranchesWhen": true which means that we should always check all branches for the latest match for "releaseTagPattern"
• Set "releaseTagPatternCheckAllBranchesWhen": true which means that we should never check all branches for the latest match for "releaseTagPattern", i.e. if the check for a match on the current branch fails to find anything, there is no longer any fallback
• Set "releaseTagPatternCheckAllBranchesWhen": string[] where each string entry is either a branch name or a glob pattern to match against branch names. In this case we will check all branches (instead of just the current branch) when the current branch matches one of the entries in the array. In other words it's similar true but for a configured subset of current branches

Related Issue(s)

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