Only bump patch version

[gtoph]

I'm wondering if my understanding isn't right with the 'always-bump-patch' option. I have a "Release/xxx" branch where I would only like to allow the patch version to be bumped for critical release issues specific to that major.minor release.

I have GitHub actions only running on the branch name, so no issue there, and my config file is as follows:

{
  "include-v-in-tag": true,  
  "versioning-strategy": "always-bump-patch",
  "release-type": "go",
  "packages": {
    ".": {}
  },
  "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/googleapis/release-please/main/schemas/config.json"
}

I created a test commit with a "feat: blah blah", but the PR created actually bumped the minor version. I had though the always bump patch option would override any prefix. Is that not the case?