Publish releases with the runner's checkout credentials
Full build / Import + headless tests (push) Successful in 36s
Full build / Full desktop build + optional release (push) Successful in 3m37s

The v0.2.10 tag build still failed to publish: its env dump showed no token at all,
because this Gitea/act runner does not provide `github.token`, and the repo has no
GITEA_TOKEN secret.

publish_release.sh now resolves credentials in order: GITEA_TOKEN,
GITEA_AUTH_HEADER, ~/.git-credentials, then the local git extraheader that
actions/checkout writes for the job. That header carries the runner's basic-auth
credentials for the same server, so tag builds publish with no repo secret.

Verified by adding the extraheader locally and publishing v0.2.10 (all five
artifacts: Linux/Windows/macOS ports, NSIS installer, AppImage), then removing it.

Docs: RELEASING describes the four credential sources and warns that github.token is
not available here; MEMORY records both failed attempts and the final fix; TODO keeps
the "verify on the next tag" follow-up. Version 0.2.11.
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@@ -37,10 +37,17 @@ The repository ships a Gitea Actions workflow (`.gitea/workflows/build.yml`):
Linux/Windows/macOS, artifact upload, and — on tags — release publication via
`tools/publish_release.sh`.
For tag builds the workflow uses `GITEA_TOKEN` (write:repository scope) or, when the
secret is absent, falls back to the workflow's built-in `github.token`. Either is
enough for the publish step; with neither, the build succeeds but no release is
created.
`tools/publish_release.sh` picks the first available credential, in order:
1. `GITEA_TOKEN` (repo secret, write:repository scope),
2. `GITEA_AUTH_HEADER` (a ready-made `Authorization: ...` header),
3. `~/.git-credentials` for the host,
4. the **local git extraheader** that `actions/checkout` configures on the CI job.
Option 4 is what makes tag builds publish without any repo secret: the runner
already injects basic-auth credentials for the checkout, and the script reuses that
header for the API (same server). `github.token` is *not* available in this Gitea
setup, so do not rely on it.
> **Incident (2026-10-31):** `tools/publish_release.sh` never set `AUTH` in its
> `~/.git-credentials` branch, so every API call failed silently (`AUTH[@]` was