From 25e0d6eaa55c1592be3e74631049bb8f3a858b19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gregory Oschwald <goschwald@maxmind.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 09:32:38 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Add check to ensure that we are not on main

---
 dev-bin/release.sh | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/dev-bin/release.sh b/dev-bin/release.sh
index 5e55c254..e540dea2 100755
--- a/dev-bin/release.sh
+++ b/dev-bin/release.sh
@@ -2,6 +2,14 @@
 
 set -eu -o pipefail
 
+# Check that we're not on the main branch
+current_branch=$(git branch --show-current)
+if [ "$current_branch" = "main" ]; then
+    echo "Error: Releases should not be done directly on the main branch."
+    echo "Please create a release branch and run this script from there."
+    exit 1
+fi
+
 changelog=$(cat CHANGELOG.md)
 
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