From ff242faad0ce3f6a53c365f1470f782aeee19963 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Morgan <andrew@amorgan.xyz>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:40:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Don't exit the release script if there are uncommitted
 changes

Instead, all the user to fix them and retry.
---
 scripts-dev/release.py | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts-dev/release.py b/scripts-dev/release.py
index 391881797..fafa55c77 100755
--- a/scripts-dev/release.py
+++ b/scripts-dev/release.py
@@ -820,8 +820,10 @@ def get_repo_and_check_clean_checkout(
         raise click.ClickException(
             f"{path} is not a git repository (expecting a {name} repository)."
         )
-    if repo.is_dirty():
-        raise click.ClickException(f"Uncommitted changes exist in {path}.")
+    while repo.is_dirty():
+        if not click.confirm(f"Uncommitted changes exist in {path}. Commit or stash them. Ready to continue?"):
+            raise click.ClickException("Aborted.")
+
     return repo