From f15498b370859d9860ff54eda075008abc2b258f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Jeffrey=20Bo=CC=88hm?= <hello@jeffrey-boehm.de>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:33:15 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] chore(ci): add manual workflow_dispatch trigger for forced
 releases

Allows triggering a release manually via GitHub Actions UI, bypassing
the empty-changelog skip logic. Useful for forcing a bugfix release
when no conventional commits are present.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 .github/workflows/release.yml | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 1947b7a4..c5d76ff2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -3,6 +3,17 @@ on:
   push:
     branches:
       - main
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      release_type:
+        description: "Release type to force (patch, minor, major)"
+        required: false
+        default: "patch"
+        type: choice
+        options:
+          - patch
+          - minor
+          - major
 concurrency:
   group: "${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}"
   cancel-in-progress: true
@@ -20,7 +31,8 @@ jobs:
         uses: TriPSs/conventional-changelog-action@91be4f3188da74fe85de9caffcebc80b26d43b5b # v6
         with:
           github-token: ${{ secrets.GH_RELEASE_PAT }}
-          skip-on-empty: true
+          skip-on-empty: ${{ github.event_name != 'workflow_dispatch' }}
+          release-type: ${{ github.event.inputs.release_type || 'patch' }}
           git-push: false
           skip-git-pull: true
           skip-version-file: true