Remove unnecessary git fetch and add more changes to trigger a nightly release

[desertaxle]

The most recent nightly release workflow run failed due to an unnecessary git fetch command that failed. This PR removes that command since we are already fetching the entire git history and adds files where changes would trigger a nightly release.

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