Garrett Delfosse b1ead5f085 fix: set git identity for release tagging and surface git stderr (#26945)
## What happened

The [Tag and Release
run](https://github.com/coder/coder/actions/runs/28549109434/job/84641825784)
failed in the `prepare-release` job at the step "Prepare release
(calculate version, create tag and branch)" with:

```
error: create tag v2.35.0-rc.0: exit status 128
```

## Root cause

`prepare-release` creates an **annotated** tag via `git tag -a`
(`scripts/release-action/prepare.go`), which records a tagger and
therefore requires a git identity. The job never ran `git config
user.name/user.email`, and runners have none configured, so git aborts
with exit status 128. The real `fatal:` message was hidden because
`realExecutor.RunMutation` discarded the command's stderr.

## Changes

- **`.github/workflows/tag-and-release.yaml`**: add a "Configure git
identity" step (`ci@coder.com` / `Coder CI`) to the `prepare-release`
job, before the release tool runs. This matches the identity pattern
already used later in the same workflow.
- **`scripts/release-action/cmdexec.go`**: capture stderr in
`RunMutation` and include it in the returned error, so a failing
mutation surfaces the underlying command output (e.g. git's `fatal:`
line) instead of only `exit status N`.
- **`scripts/release-action/cmdexec_test.go`**: add a test asserting
stderr is surfaced on failure.

## Testing

- `go test ./scripts/release-action/...` passes.
- `go vet ./scripts/release-action/...` and `gofmt` clean.
- `actionlint .github/workflows/tag-and-release.yaml` clean.
- Reproduced the failure locally: `git tag -a` with no usable identity
exits 128 (`fatal: no email was given and auto-detection is disabled`);
with an identity configured it succeeds.

<details>
<summary>Root-cause analysis / decision log</summary>

**Failing step** runs `go run ./scripts/release-action prepare-release
--type create-release-branch --ref main --commit cb1a87b…`.

1. The tool computes the next version `v2.35.0-rc.0` and calls
`createAndPushTag`, which runs `git tag -a v2.35.0-rc.0 -m "Release
v2.35.0-rc.0" <targetRef>` (`prepare.go:56`).
2. That git command exits **128**, wrapped as `error: create tag
v2.35.0-rc.0: exit status 128`.

**Why it's the identity, and not something else:**

- No `git config user.name/user.email` step exists in the
`prepare-release` job; the `setup-mise` action does not set it; and the
tool itself never sets an identity. Annotated tags require a tagger, so
`git tag -a` fails on runners whose auto-detected identity is bogus
(`…@runner.(none)`), which is rejected under git's strict identity
check.
- Not a pre-existing tag collision: no `v2.35.0*` tag exists on the
remote, and the code pre-checks for an existing tag (and would emit a
different "already exists" error).
- Not an unresolved ref: `targetRef` resolves to the provided commit
SHA, checked out at `fetch-depth: 0`.
- The log was unhelpful because `RunMutation` used `cmd.Run()` without
wiring git's stderr (`cmdexec.go`), discarding the `fatal:` line and
leaving only `exit status 128`. This PR fixes that too.
- The sibling `release.yaml` explicitly sets `git config
user.email/user.name` before its git mutations; that step was simply
missing from the newer `tag-and-release.yaml` `prepare-release` job.

</details>

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