Attempt using merge into master insted

.github/workflows/publish.yml

@@ -18,11 +18,14 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
-          ref: master
+          fetch-depth: 0
+          ref: bump-version
+
       - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
           python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+
       # Avoid caching to be 100% confident things are working properly
       - name: Init python poetry action
         uses: abatilo/[email protected]
@@ -40,16 +43,26 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build distribution
         run: poetry build
 
+      - name: Configure git user
+        run: |
+          git config --global user.name 'BumpVersion[CI]'
+          git config --global user.email '[email protected]'
+
       - name: Bump to version
         run: poetry run make version version=${{ github.ref_name }}
 
       - name: Commit new version
         run: |
-          git config --global user.name 'BumpVersion[CI]'
-          git config --global user.email '[email protected]'
           git commit -am "Update version to ${{ github.ref_name }}"
           git push
 
+      - name: Merge into master
+        run: |
+          git checkout master
+          git pull
+          git merge origin/bump-version
+          git push
+
       - name: Publish distribution to PyPI
         run: |
           echo "will publish ${poetry version}"