First letter of onboardingCommitMessage is converted to lowercase although "commitMessageLowerCase" is set to "never"

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Discussed in #25625

^{Originally posted by mkrill November 7, 2023}

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Was this something which used to work for you, and then stopped?

I am trying to get this working for the first time

Describe the problem

Hello,
in our onboarding configuration in config.js file , we try to initialize our onboardingCommitMessage like so DIGIHUB-123456 configure Renovate.

However, although having configured semanticCommits: "enabled" and commitMessageLowerCase: "never" in config.js, the resulting commit message in the onboarding branch is chore(deps): dIGIHUB-223277 configure Renovate. Thus, instead of starting with uppercade D, it starts with lowercase d. This breaks our push rule for commit messages.

I am not a typescript person, but the commit responsible for this bug seems to be ed73d38 and more concrete the following function https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/blob/main/lib/workers/repository/model/commit-message.ts#L71

IMO, there shouldn't be any lowercase conversion, if commitMessageLowerCase is set to "never".

I will add a reproduction repository as soon as I find the time to setup a corresponding GitHub repo.

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https://github.com/renovate-reproductions/nvm3