Version Bump causes job failure - `commit messages` and `mr title`

❗ Summary

during merge of !1 (merged) from development to master the gitlab_release Pipeline #351948852 ran and bumped the version. on pushing the changes back job commit messages and mr title failed in Pipeline #351949062

🔭 Observation

• Both commit messages and mr title jobs fail on step git clone --depth 150 -b $target_branch $CI_REPOSITORY_URL check as $target_branch variable does not exist.

🔗 Related

• Job #1497465628 failed for 389bc08d:

• Job #1497465627 failed for 389bc08d:

• Pipeline #351949062

• Pipeline #351948852

🚧 Tasks

• MR Title Check Job does not fail if there is no merge request.