"ERROR: stat add: no such file or directory"

Summary

We have a gitlab cicd pipeline that has the following setup:

image: registry.gitlab.com/gitlab-org/release-cli:latest # Currently version v0.24.0
...
  release:
    tag_name: "$RELEASE_VERSION"
    name: "Released $RELEASE_VERSION"
    description: 'Release Note: ${CI_COMMIT_MESSAGE} Created using release-cli in pipeline $CI_PIPELINE_IID created at $CI_PIPELINE_CREATED_AT'
    ref: '$CI_COMMIT_SHA'

This usually works but the system wasn't happy at one point and outputted this error: "ERROR: stat add: no such file or directory"

Digging a little closer, for some reason it's not happy with our commit message having this:

Merge branch 'branch-name-here' into 'main'

Resolve AAAA-11 "Ms add wadl"

Closes AAAA-11

See merge request name/something-something/wah!57