From e22f34a40573d7ae48cd33ba40d710e1fa8a9936 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Michael B. Gale" <mbg@github.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2025 14:20:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Create a new tag for test runs, to make sure we have changes
 from a PR

---
 .github/workflows/rollback-release.yml | 13 ++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/rollback-release.yml b/.github/workflows/rollback-release.yml
index 6b9a9221f..63629cb00 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/rollback-release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/rollback-release.yml
@@ -48,6 +48,11 @@ jobs:
       - name: Configure runner for release
         uses: ./.github/actions/release-initialise
 
+      - name: Create tag for testing
+        if: github.event_name != 'workflow_dispatch'
+        shell: bash
+        run: git tag v0.0.0
+
       # We start by preparing the mergeback branch, mainly so that we have the updated changelog
       # readily available for the partial changelog that's needed for the release.
       - name: Prepare mergeback branch
@@ -69,7 +74,9 @@ jobs:
       - name: Prepare rollback changelog
         env:
           NEW_CHANGELOG: "${{ runner.temp }}/new_changelog.md"
-          ROLLBACK_TAG: ${{ inputs.rollback-tag || needs.prepare.outputs.latest_tag }}
+          # We usually expect to checkout `inputs.rollback-tag` (required for `workflow_dispatch`),
+          # but use `v0.0.0` for testing.
+          ROLLBACK_TAG: ${{ inputs.rollback-tag || 'v0.0.0' }}
           LATEST_TAG: ${{ needs.prepare.outputs.latest_tag }}
           VERSION: "${{ needs.prepare.outputs.version }}"
         run: |
@@ -83,8 +90,8 @@ jobs:
         shell: bash
         env:
           # We usually expect to checkout `inputs.rollback-tag` (required for `workflow_dispatch`),
-          # but use `needs.prepare.outputs.latest_tag` for testing.
-          ROLLBACK_TAG: ${{ inputs.rollback-tag || needs.prepare.outputs.latest_tag }}
+          # but use `v0.0.0` for testing.
+          ROLLBACK_TAG: ${{ inputs.rollback-tag || 'v0.0.0' }}
           RELEASE_TAG: ${{ needs.prepare.outputs.version }}
           MAJOR_VERSION_TAG: ${{ needs.prepare.outputs.major_version }}
         run: |