Help - Getting REJECTED_NONFASTFORWARD error with multiple merge commits in Gitlab CI

[manishteotiarms]

I'm new to both axion-release-plugin and GitLab CI and facing issue when multiple commits are merged into the main branch.

From what I understand, the REJECTED_NONFASTFORWARD error occurs when trying to push changes to a remote Git repository. This indicates that the remote branch has diverged from the local branch, and Git cannot perform a fast-forward merge.

In our GitLab setup, the merge method is set to Merge commit.

Scenario
When two commits are merged consecutively:

• The second commit doesn't include changes from the first commit.
• The first commit correctly increments the tag version.
• However, the second commit's tag increment fails with the REJECTED_NONFASTFORWARD error.

Here is the release stage (Gitlab pipeline) logs for the second commit:

Starting the release process for 1.2.0-SNAPSHOT...
gradle release command invoked successfully.
> Task :verifyRelease
Skipping uncommitted changes check
Skipping ahead of remote check
Skipping snapshot dependencies check
remote status: REJECTED_NONFASTFORWARD
remote message: 
> Task :release FAILED
Creating tag: v1.2.0
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:

How can I make sure that 2nd commit know about the tag which is being created by the 1st merge commit.

Thank you.