release-cherry-pick.yml

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# Step 3 (optional): Cherry-picks a commit from main to the release/candidate branch.
# Use between step 1 and step 4 to include bug fixes in an in-progress release.
# Note: Does NOT auto-trigger release-please to preserve manual changelog edits.
name: "Release: Cherry-pick"

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      commit_sha:
        description: 'Commit SHA to cherry-pick'
        required: true
        type: string

permissions:
  contents: write

jobs:
  cherry-pick:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
        with:
          ref: release/candidate
          fetch-depth: 0

      - name: Configure git
        run: |
          git config user.name "github-actions[bot]"
          git config user.email "github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"

      - name: Cherry-pick commit
        run: |
          echo "Cherry-picking ${INPUTS_COMMIT_SHA} to release/candidate"
          git cherry-pick ${INPUTS_COMMIT_SHA}
        env:
          INPUTS_COMMIT_SHA: ${{ inputs.commit_sha }}

      - name: Push changes
        run: |
          git push origin release/candidate
          echo "Successfully cherry-picked commit to release/candidate"
          echo "Note: Release Please is NOT auto-triggered to preserve manual changelog edits."
          echo "Run release-please.yml manually if you want to regenerate the changelog."