[@semantic-release/github] step fails with 404 error when trying to access non-existent PR # 1

从 CI 日志中显示的 @semantic-release/github 成功步骤以及用于列出某个 pull request 上提交的 Octokit 请求开始。使用提供的 dayjs 配置和 release 日志重现问题，然后跟踪 plugin 如何从已分析的提交中选择 PR。完成的标准是，缺少 PR 不再导致成功的 release workflow 失败，并且为这种情况添加覆盖。

Current behavior

success step fails with 404 error when trying to access non-existent PR # 1

Bug Report

semantic-release version: 24.2.7
@semantic-release/github version: (latest installed via npm install -g)
Node version: 22.18.0
npm version: (from GitHub Actions)
Platform: GitHub Actions (ubuntu-latest)

Description

The semantic-release process completes successfully (npm package is published, GitHub release is created), but fails at the final success step when @semantic-release/github tries to access a non-existent Pull Request # 1.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Run semantic-release on a repository with the following configuration:

   • Default semantic-release setup with @semantic-release/changelog, @semantic-release/git, and @semantic-release/github plugins
   • Repository: https://github.com/iamkun/dayjs
   • Triggered by push to master branch

2. The release process works fine until the success step

Actual Behavior

The success step fails with a 404 error when trying to access /repos/iamkun/dayjs/pulls/1/commits, even though the commits being analyzed reference PR semantic-release/semantic-release#2920 (https://github.com/iamkun/dayjs/pull/2920), not PR semantic-release/semantic-release#1.

Commit Analysis Context

The semantic-release found 8 commits since the last release, including:

• Merge pull request semantic-release/semantic-release#2920 from iamkun/dev
• Several other commits with fix/chore/test prefixes

None of the analyzed commits reference PR semantic-release/semantic-release#1, yet the plugin attempts to access it.

Questions/Concerns

1. Why is the plugin trying to access PR # 1? The commits being analyzed reference PR # 2920 (https://github.com/iamkun/dayjs/pull/2920), not PR # 1. How does the plugin determine which PRs to process?

2. Is there a configuration to prevent this? Can we configure the plugin to skip PR processing or handle missing PRs more gracefully?

Github Action

https://github.com/iamkun/dayjs/blob/dev/.github/workflows/release.yml

Logs

https://github.com/iamkun/dayjs/actions/runs/17285905464/job/49063050009

Expected behavior

The success step should complete without errors, or gracefully handle non-existent PRs.

semantic-release version

24.2.7

CI environment

Github Action

Plugins used

@semantic-release/changelog
@semantic-release/git

semantic-release configuration

https://github.com/iamkun/dayjs/blob/dev/.releaserc

{
"branches": ["master"],
"prepare": [
{
"path": "@semantic-release/changelog"
},
[
"@semantic-release/git",
{
"assets": [
"CHANGELOG.md"
]
}
]
]
}

CI logs

Run npm install -g @semantic-release/changelog @semantic-release/git semantic-release
  npm install -g @semantic-release/changelog @semantic-release/git semantic-release
  semantic-release
  shell: /usr/bin/bash -e {0}
  env:
    GITHUB_TOKEN: ***
    NPM_TOKEN: ***

added 322 packages in 7s

103 packages are looking for funding
  run `npm fund` for details
[4:37:59 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  Running semantic-release version 24.2.7
[4:38:00 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "verifyConditions" from "@semantic-release/npm"
[4:38:00 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "verifyConditions" from "@semantic-release/github"
[4:38:00 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "analyzeCommits" from "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer"
[4:38:00 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "generateNotes" from "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator"
[4:38:00 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "prepare" from "@semantic-release/changelog"
[4:38:00 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "prepare" from "@semantic-release/git"
[4:38:00 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "publish" from "@semantic-release/npm"
[4:38:00 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "publish" from "@semantic-release/github"
[4:38:00 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "addChannel" from "@semantic-release/npm"
[4:38:00 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "addChannel" from "@semantic-release/github"
[4:38:00 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "success" from "@semantic-release/github"
[4:38:00 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "fail" from "@semantic-release/github"
[4:38:01 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Run automated release from branch master on repository https://github.com/iamkun/dayjs.git
[4:38:01 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Allowed to push to the Git repository
[4:38:01 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  Start step "verifyConditions" of plugin "@semantic-release/npm"
[4:38:01 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/npm] › ℹ  Verify authentication for registry https://registry.npmjs.org/
[4:38:01 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/npm] › ℹ  Wrote NPM_TOKEN to /tmp/e424f65a0adda158bec1ed4d8e1b24/.npmrc
iamkun
[4:38:01 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Completed step "verifyConditions" of plugin "@semantic-release/npm"
[4:38:01 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  Start step "verifyConditions" of plugin "@semantic-release/github"
[4:38:01 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/github] › ℹ  Verify GitHub authentication (https://api.github.com)
[4:38:01 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Completed step "verifyConditions" of plugin "@semantic-release/github"
[4:38:01 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  Found git tag v1.11.14 associated with version 1.11.14 on branch master
[4:38:01 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  Found 8 commits since last release
[4:38:01 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  Start step "analyzeCommits" of plugin "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer"
[4:38:01 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/commit-analyzer] › ℹ  Analyzing commit: Merge pull request semantic-release/semantic-release#2920 from iamkun/dev

d2m
[4:38:01 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/commit-analyzer] › ℹ  The commit should not trigger a release
[4:38:01 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/commit-analyzer] › ℹ  Analyzing commit: fix: Fix misspellings in Irish or Irish Gaelic [ga] (#2861)

For authoritative forms see e.g. 
https://www.tearma.ie/q/October/

[4:38:01 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/commit-analyzer] › ℹ  The release type for the commit is patch
[4:38:01 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/commit-analyzer] › ℹ  Analyzing commit: chore: update workflows
[4:38:01 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/commit-analyzer] › ℹ  The commit should not trigger a release
[4:38:01 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/commit-analyzer] › ℹ  Analyzing commit: chore: update workflows
[4:38:01 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/commit-analyzer] › ℹ  The commit should not trigger a release
[4:38:01 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/commit-analyzer] › ℹ  Analyzing commit: chore: update workflows
[4:38:01 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/commit-analyzer] › ℹ  The commit should not trigger a release
[4:38:01 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/commit-analyzer] › ℹ  Analyzing commit: test: update test case (#2917)
[4:38:01 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/commit-analyzer] › ℹ  The commit should not trigger a release
[4:38:01 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/commit-analyzer] › ℹ  Analyzing commit: test: update test case (#2916)

* test: update test case

* test: update test case
[4:38:01 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/commit-analyzer] › ℹ  The commit should not trigger a release
[4:38:01 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/commit-analyzer] › ℹ  Analyzing commit: chore: update workflows (#2915)

* chore: update workflows

* chore: update workflows

* chore: update workflows

* chore: update workflows

* chore: update workflows

* chore: update workflows

* chore: update workflows

* chore: update workflows

* chore: update workflows

* chore: update workflows
[4:38:01 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/commit-analyzer] › ℹ  The commit should not trigger a release
[4:38:01 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/commit-analyzer] › ℹ  Analysis of 8 commits complete: patch release
[4:38:01 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Completed step "analyzeCommits" of plugin "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer"
[4:38:01 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  The next release version is 1.11.15
[4:38:01 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  Start step "generateNotes" of plugin "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator"
[4:38:01 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Completed step "generateNotes" of plugin "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator"
[4:38:01 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  Start step "prepare" of plugin "@semantic-release/changelog"
[4:38:01 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/changelog] › ℹ  Update /home/runner/work/dayjs/dayjs/CHANGELOG.md
[4:38:01 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Completed step "prepare" of plugin "@semantic-release/changelog"
[4:38:02 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  Start step "prepare" of plugin "@semantic-release/git"
[4:38:02 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/git] › ℹ  Found 1 file(s) to commit
[4:38:05 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/git] › ℹ  Prepared Git release: v1.11.15
[4:38:05 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Completed step "prepare" of plugin "@semantic-release/git"
[4:38:05 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  Start step "generateNotes" of plugin "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator"
[4:38:05 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Completed step "generateNotes" of plugin "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator"
[4:38:06 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Created tag v1.11.15
[4:38:06 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  Start step "publish" of plugin "@semantic-release/npm"
[4:38:06 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/npm] › ℹ  Write version 1.11.15 to package.json in /home/runner/work/dayjs/dayjs
v1.11.15
[4:38:06 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/npm] › ℹ  Publishing version 1.11.15 to npm registry on dist-tag latest
npm warn publish npm auto-corrected some errors in your package.json when publishing.  Please run "npm pkg fix" to address these errors.
npm warn publish errors corrected:
npm warn publish scripts entry "lint" was fixed to remove node_modules/.bin reference
npm warn publish "repository.url" was normalized to "git+https://github.com/iamkun/dayjs.git"
npm notice
npm notice 📦  dayjs@1.11.15
npm notice Publishing to https://registry.npmjs.org/ with tag latest and default access
+ dayjs@1.11.15
[4:38:10 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/npm] › ℹ  Published dayjs@1.11.15 to dist-tag @latest on https://registry.npmjs.org/
[4:38:10 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Completed step "publish" of plugin "@semantic-release/npm"
[4:38:10 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  Start step "publish" of plugin "@semantic-release/github"
[4:38:10 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/github] › ℹ  Published GitHub release: https://github.com/iamkun/dayjs/releases/tag/v1.11.15
[4:38:10 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Completed step "publish" of plugin "@semantic-release/github"
[4:38:10 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  Start step "success" of plugin "@semantic-release/github"
[4:38:26 AM] [semantic-release] › ✘  Failed step "success" of plugin "@semantic-release/github"
[4:38:26 AM] [semantic-release] › ✘  An error occurred while running semantic-release: RequestError [HttpError]: Not Found - https://docs.github.com/rest/pulls/pulls#list-commits-on-a-pull-request
    at fetchWrapper (file:///opt/hostedtoolcache/node/22.18.0/x64/lib/node_modules/semantic-release/node_modules/@octokit/request/dist-bundle/index.js:122:11)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:105:5)
    at async requestWithGraphqlErrorHandling (file:///opt/hostedtoolcache/node/22.18.0/x64/lib/node_modules/semantic-release/node_modules/@octokit/plugin-retry/dist-bundle/index.js:36:20)
    at async Job.doExecute (/opt/hostedtoolcache/node/22.18.0/x64/lib/node_modules/semantic-release/node_modules/bottleneck/light.js:405:18) {
  status: 404,
  request: {
    method: 'GET',
    url: 'https://api.github.com/repos/iamkun/dayjs/pulls/1/commits',
    headers: {
      accept: 'application/vnd.github.v3+json',
      'user-agent': '@semantic-release/github v11.0.4 octokit-core.js/7.0.3 Node.js/22',
      authorization: 'token [REDACTED]'
    },
    request: {
      agent: undefined,
      hook: [Function: bound bound register],
      retryCount: 3,
      retries: 3,
      retryAfter: 16
    }
  },
  response: {
    url: 'https://api.github.com/repos/iamkun/dayjs/pulls/1/commits',
    status: 404,
    headers: {
      'access-control-allow-origin': '*',
      'access-control-expose-headers': 'ETag, Link, Location, Retry-After, X-GitHub-OTP, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Used, X-RateLimit-Resource, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-OAuth-Scopes, X-Accepted-OAuth-Scopes, X-Poll-Interval, X-GitHub-Media-Type, X-GitHub-SSO, X-GitHub-Request-Id, Deprecation, Sunset',
      'content-encoding': 'gzip',
      'content-security-policy': "default-src 'none'",
      'content-type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
      date: 'Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:38:26 GMT',
      'referrer-policy': 'origin-when-cross-origin, strict-origin-when-cross-origin',
      server: 'github.com',
      'strict-transport-security': 'max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload',
      'transfer-encoding': 'chunked',
      vary: 'Accept-Encoding, Accept, X-Requested-With',
      'x-accepted-github-permissions': 'pull_requests=read',
      'x-content-type-options': 'nosniff',
      'x-frame-options': 'deny',
      'x-github-api-version-selected': '2022-11-28',
      'x-github-media-type': 'github.v3; format=json',
      'x-github-request-id': '6C20:23E6D2:4753F2:10245B7:68AFDD42',
      'x-ratelimit-limit': '5000',
      'x-ratelimit-remaining': '4970',
      'x-ratelimit-reset': '1756358327',
      'x-ratelimit-resource': 'core',
      'x-ratelimit-used': '30',
      'x-xss-protection': '0'
    },
    data: {
      message: 'Not Found',
      documentation_url: 'https://docs.github.com/rest/pulls/pulls#list-commits-on-a-pull-request',
      status: '404'
    }
  },
  pluginName: '@semantic-release/github'
}
AggregateError: 
    HttpError: Not Found - https://docs.github.com/rest/pulls/pulls#list-commits-on-a-pull-request
        at fetchWrapper (file:///opt/hostedtoolcache/node/22.18.0/x64/lib/node_modules/semantic-release/node_modules/@octokit/request/dist-bundle/index.js:122:11)
        at async requestWithGraphqlErrorHandling (file:///opt/hostedtoolcache/node/22.18.0/x64/lib/node_modules/semantic-release/node_modules/@octokit/plugin-retry/dist-bundle/index.js:36:20)
        at async Job.doExecute (/opt/hostedtoolcache/node/22.18.0/x64/lib/node_modules/semantic-release/node_modules/bottleneck/light.js:405:18)
    at file:///opt/hostedtoolcache/node/22.18.0/x64/lib/node_modules/semantic-release/lib/plugins/pipeline.js:55:13
    at async pluginsConfigAccumulator.<computed> [as success] (file:///opt/hostedtoolcache/node/22.18.0/x64/lib/node_modules/semantic-release/lib/plugins/index.js:87:11)
    at async run (file:///opt/hostedtoolcache/node/22.18.0/x64/lib/node_modules/semantic-release/index.js:218:3)
    at async Module.default (file:///opt/hostedtoolcache/node/22.18.0/x64/lib/node_modules/semantic-release/index.js:278:22)
    at async default (file:///opt/hostedtoolcache/node/22.18.0/x64/lib/node_modules/semantic-release/cli.js:55:5) {
  errors: [
    RequestError [HttpError]: Not Found - https://docs.github.com/rest/pulls/pulls#list-commits-on-a-pull-request
        at fetchWrapper (file:///opt/hostedtoolcache/node/22.18.0/x64/lib/node_modules/semantic-release/node_modules/@octokit/request/dist-bundle/index.js:122:11)
        at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:105:5)
        at async requestWithGraphqlErrorHandling (file:///opt/hostedtoolcache/node/22.18.0/x64/lib/node_modules/semantic-release/node_modules/@octokit/plugin-retry/dist-bundle/index.js:36:20)
        at async Job.doExecute (/opt/hostedtoolcache/node/22.18.0/x64/lib/node_modules/semantic-release/node_modules/bottleneck/light.js:405:18) {
      status: 404,
      request: [Object],
      response: [Object],
      pluginName: '@semantic-release/github'
    }
  ]
}
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.