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Why fail action is not executed if prepareCmd fails?

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, shell
Domain
cli, release

Research direction

Start by reproducing the failure with a script defined in prepareCmd, then compare it with the verifyConditions case involving @semantic-release/gitlab. Trace how the fail action is reached after each lifecycle step. Done means a prepareCmd failure also triggers the fail action and its notification behavior is covered by the project’s tests.

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Description

If some error occurs for example at verifyConditions of @semantic-release/gitlab plugin, fail action executes and I receive a notification. But if script defined in prepareCmd fails, it doesn`t work.

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