From: Justin Forbes on gitlab.com
https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/351#note_571531270
Reverting this for now, it seems to not work as intended:
fatal: 'ark/patches/master' is not a commit and a branch 'ark/master'
cannot be created from it
From: Jeremy Cline
The release scripts are supposed create a set of branches if the release
is based of a tag rather than a snapshot. davidlt noted on IRC that
branches were missing for recent tags, namely rc3 and rc4. The reason is
that the check for a signed tag expects $UPSTREAM_REF to be the
