Persist credentials in the release workflow (#729)

Co-authored-by: William Woodruff <[email protected]>

Author: zanieb

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           submodules: recursive
-          persist-credentials: false
+          persist-credentials: true # needed for git operations below
 
       - uses: extractions/setup-just@e33e0265a09d6d736e2ee1e0eb685ef1de4669ff # v2