From 5b313fd26f7868b084ada6feb88cfeceff7099be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: restlessankyyy <rajankit749@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:04:45 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] ci: always build backend image on v* tags regardless of
 changed paths

---
 .github/workflows/backend-image.yml | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/backend-image.yml b/.github/workflows/backend-image.yml
index 9b7cab6..e150dbe 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/backend-image.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/backend-image.yml
@@ -7,9 +7,10 @@ on:
   push:
     branches: [main]
     tags: ["v*"]
-    paths:
-      - "backend/**"
-      - ".github/workflows/backend-image.yml"
+    # No paths filter here: GitHub applies push `paths` to tag pushes too, so a
+    # release tag whose commit only touched infra/ would be skipped and never
+    # publish its versioned image. Branch pushes are cheap to rebuild (the image
+    # tag is content-addressed), so we always build on main and on every v* tag.
   pull_request:
     paths:
       - "backend/**"