TypeScript Bot's sync release-X.X fails

[DanielRosenwasser]

This is the first time we tried running it, so not super unexpected, but looks like we probably wanted to merge from origin/master instead of master.

#37198 (comment)

https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/runs/616943054?check_suite_focus=true

[DanielRosenwasser]

This might've just been due to a merge conflict, in which case maybe we just want to always take in master?

[weswigham]

as in deleting the releases branch and force pushing master as the new release?

[DanielRosenwasser]

Ehh, maybe let's discuss later this week

[DanielRosenwasser]

It happened again for different reasons

#40124 (comment)

Run git config user.email "typescriptbot@microsoft.com"
From https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript
 * branch              master     -> FETCH_HEAD
 * [new branch]        master     -> origin/master
fatal: refusing to merge unrelated histories
##[error]Process completed with exit code 128.

[weswigham]

Fixed - the task was broken when it was changed to checkout@v2, since that, by default, does not include history.