commitChangesToNewBranch failed: invalid merge

[jpkrohling]

When trying to release OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib v0.41.0, once dealing with #46 manually, I ran into the following problem. I noticed that the branch was identical to the state of my workspace after the last run of the multimod. Is this the reason for the failure?

===== Module Set: contrib-base =====
Updating versions for module set...
Updating all module versions in go.mod files...
git branch prerelease_contrib-base_v0.41.0
Committing changes to git with message 'Prepare contrib-base for version v0.41.0'
commitChangesToNewBranch failed: could not commit changes: could not commit changes to git: branch config: invalid merge
make: *** [Makefile:302: multimod-prerelease] Error 1

$ git st
On branch prerelease_contrib-base_v0.41.0
nothing to commit, working tree clean

$ git version
git version 2.33.1

$ git log -1
commit fc4a73eb9ebdeb02c38e67eca9f0f160fa4ae464 (HEAD -> prerelease_contrib-base_v0.41.0, jpkrohling/core/issue4523)
Author: Juraci Paixão Kröhling <juraci@kroehling.de>
Date:   Thu Dec 9 10:46:18 2021 +0100

    gomodtidy
    
    Signed-off-by: Juraci Paixão Kröhling <juraci@kroehling.de>

[mx-psi]

I also ran into this while doing the opentelemetry-collector v0.47.0 release. I fixed it by nuking the repo and cloning again, but I am not sure why that solved the problem.

[pellared]

@mx-psi @jpkrohling Is this issue still valid? Personally, I have not encountered it for several months.

[mx-psi]

I did not encounter it on the last two releases for which I was a release manager