fix(build): increase release-please search depths to prevent 250-commit window issue

[WilliamBerryiii]

Description

Configure release-please search depths to prevent version detection failures when the latest release tag is beyond the default commit scanning window. This addresses a known limitation (googleapis/release-please#2267) where release-please fails to find tags older than ~250 commits, causing it to reprocess the entire commit history and incorrectly detect already-released breaking changes.

• Added release-search-depth: 800 at root level to increase release pagination depth
• Added commit-search-depth: 1000 at root level to increase commit scanning depth
• Added include-component-in-tag: true to explicitly match the existing tag format (hve-core-vX.Y.Z)

Related Issue(s)

Related to googleapis/release-please#2267

Type of Change

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Code & Documentation:

• Bug fix (non-breaking change fixing an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change adding functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature causing existing functionality to change)
• Documentation update

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• GitHub Actions workflow
• Linting configuration (markdown, PowerShell, etc.)
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• DevContainer configuration
• Dependency update

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Testing

• Validated JSON syntax using node -e "require('./release-please-config.json')"
• Verified configuration matches the release-please JSON schema (no IDE validation errors)
• Expected behavior: Next release-please run will correctly detect the v2.0.1 tag regardless of commit distance

Checklist

Required Checks

• Documentation is updated (if applicable)
• Files follow existing naming conventions
• Changes are backwards compatible (if applicable)
• Tests added for new functionality (if applicable)

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Security Considerations

• This PR does not contain any sensitive or NDA information
• Any new dependencies have been reviewed for security issues
• Security-related scripts follow the principle of least privilege

Additional Notes

This fix addresses the erroneous v3.0.0 release PR (#341) that was created immediately after publishing v2.0.1. The root cause was the 250-commit window limitation causing release-please to reprocess the entire commit history and re-detect the breaking change from PR #277 that was already released in v2.0.0.

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Dependency Review

✅ No vulnerabilities or license issues or OpenSSF Scorecard issues found.

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Codecov Report

✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 52.41%. Comparing base (23c2b9f) to head (962aa9c).
⚠️ Report is 1 commits behind head on main.

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Pull request overview

This PR fixes a release-please configuration issue where the tool fails to detect version tags beyond its default ~250 commit scanning window, causing it to incorrectly reprocess the entire commit history and detect already-released breaking changes.

Changes:

• Added search depth configurations (release-search-depth: 800, commit-search-depth: 1000) to expand release-please's commit scanning window
• Added explicit tag format configuration (include-component-in-tag: true) to match the existing hve-core-vX.Y.Z tag pattern

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