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

• Chores
  • Improved the release process to preserve local changes while synchronizing the release branch.
  • Reduced the risk of release updates being interrupted by uncommitted changes.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The release workflow now uses git pull --rebase --autostash when synchronizing the release branch before pushing version changes.

Changes

Release workflow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Autostashed release synchronization .github/workflows/release.yml	The release push loop adds --autostash to the rebase pull command.

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

Mergeability Score: 🟠 High · up to 37dd5

The release workflow can execute unintended shell commands when processing a specially crafted branch or tag name, creating a security risk during releases. Merge should be blocked until the ref value is passed safely and quoted.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the release-job rebase fix for unstaged changes.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description follows the template and clearly explains the problem, approach, checklist status, and security checks.
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 102: Update the release workflow step containing the git pull and push
commands to expose github.ref_name through a step-level RELEASE_REF environment
variable, then quote "$RELEASE_REF" in the pull command and "HEAD:$RELEASE_REF"
in the push refspec to prevent shell injection.

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