actually commented out all release branch deps

.github/workflows/backend-production-deploy.yml

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0 # fetch history for all branches and tags
-          ref: release
+          #ref: release
 
       - name: Set up Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5