Semantic release tool is creating "git notes" is there documentation on why is that, and a way to disable this?

[hpe-ykoehler]

I have the following semantic-release configuration file:

{
  "branches": [
    "mainline",
    { name: "devel", prerelease: 'alpha'}
  ],
  "plugins": [
    "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer",
    "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator",
    "@semantic-release/changelog",
    ["@semantic-release/exec", {
      "prepareCmd": "echo '${nextRelease.version}' > version"
    }],
    ["@semantic-release/git", {
      "assets": ["CHANGELOG.md", "version"],
      "message": "chore(release): [KR-24] ${nextRelease.version}"
    }]
  ]
}

and I am seeing some commit related to "git notes" with a channel in it.

Notes added by 'git notes add'

{"channels":["devel"]}

etc...

I am not familiar with git notes but in our organization we do not really use those, how can I disable the creation of those? Or learn more about what is the purpose, etc.

[dalssaso]

I've been experiencing the same behaviour and I couldn't find a way to disable it

The issue here is a bit worst I can't even push it to our private gitlab instance as it's not allowed 😢

I coulnd't find this option on the code which is weird because there's no reference on for ref/notes/ in the code (im no expert in JS btw, so I could've missed it)

[dalssaso]

Just an update here from my part.

I found the "issue" and it turns out it's not possible to disable it because it's how semantic-release keeps track of the releases it generates (I'm not entirely sure about how because i didn't go that deep)

The part of the code that does these pushes is here: https://github.com/semantic-release/semantic-release/blob/master/lib/git.js#L250

I also found this that helped me understand what is happening: semantic-release/semantic-release#2017