Fix release job's rebase against incidental unstaged changes

[brionmario]

Purpose

The equivalent Flutter release job failed with cannot pull with rebase: You have unstaged changes after the version-bump commit — a tracked file left dirty by earlier tooling steps blocked the rebase, since the commit step only stages the known release files. Applying the same defensive fix here since this SDK's release job uses the identical commit/rebase/push pattern.

Approach

Passes --autostash to git pull --rebase in the "Commit, Tag & Push" step, so any incidental unstaged change is stashed and restored around the rebase instead of aborting the release.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved release workflow reliability by preserving local changes during branch updates and retries.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The release workflow now uses Git autostash during its rebased pull. This preserves local uncommitted changes during release commit synchronization.

Changes

Release workflow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Preserve local changes during release synchronization .github/workflows/release.yml	The retry loop now runs git pull --rebase --autostash instead of git pull --rebase.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~2 minutes

Mergeability Score: 🟠 High · up to eed96

The release workflow uses a manually selected ref directly in shell commands, allowing a crafted ref to execute commands with repository write access. This security issue should be fixed before merging.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the release job rebase fix for incidental unstaged changes.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the failure, implementation, scope, and security checks; unchecked documentation and test items are non-critical for this workflow change.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/release.yml:
- Line 96: Define RELEASE_REF from github.ref_name in the job environment, then
update the git pull and git push commands to use the quoted "$RELEASE_REF"
variable instead of interpolating the expression directly.

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