feat: Creates two new workflow actions for merging dist.

.github/workflows/approve-merge.yml

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+# Copyright 2025 Google LLC
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+name: Approve and Merge Release Pull Request
+
+on:
+  pull_request_target:
+    types:
+      - opened
+      - synchronize
+      - reopened
+    branches:
+      - main # Only trigger for PRs targeting main
+    paths: # Optional but recommended: only trigger for changes in specific parts of the repo
+      - 'dist/**'
+
+jobs:
+  approve-and-merge:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    if: github.event.pull_request.user.login == 'googlemaps-bot[bot]' && github.event.pull_request.head.ref == 'dist-to-main-pr'
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }} # Checkout the PR's head commit
+          token: ${{ secrets.GH_TOKEN_RELEASE }}
+
+      - name: Approve PR
+        run: gh pr review --approve "$PR_URL"
+        env:
+          PR_URL: ${{ github.event.pull_request.html_url }}
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GH_TOKEN_RELEASE }}
+
+      - name: Merge PR
+        run: gh pr merge --auto --squash --delete-branch "$PR_URL"
+        env:
+          PR_URL: ${{ github.event.pull_request.html_url }}
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GH_TOKEN_RELEASE }}

.github/workflows/dist-pr.yml

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+# Copyright 2025 Google LLC
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+name: Create release PR for dist
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - dist
+
+jobs:
+  create-pr:
+      runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+      steps:
+        - name: Checkout code
+          uses: actions/checkout@v3
+          with:
+            ref: ${{ github.event.after }}  # Check out the *new* commit on dist
+
+        - name: Create Pull Request
+          uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v5
+          with:
+            token: ${{ secrets.GH_TOKEN_RELEASE }}
+            commit-message: 'chore: automated output update (dist)'
+            title: 'chore: automated output update (dist)'
+            body: 'This PR contains updated build output from the dist branch.'
+            branch: 'dist-to-main-pr'  # Use a dedicated PR branch
+            base: main
+            labels: |
+              automated pr
+              dist-update
+            draft: false # Or true, if you want to review before enabling auto-merge

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -92,36 +92,9 @@ jobs:
         - name: Add and commit changes to the dist folder
           run: |
             git add dist
-            git add index.html
             if [[ -n $(git status --porcelain) ]]; then
                 git commit -m "Update dist folder"
                 git push origin dist
             else
                 echo "No changes to commit"
             fi
-
-        - name: debugging steps
-          run: |
-            echo "github.ref is ${{ github.ref }}"
-            echo "github.actor is ${{ github.actor }}"
-
-    approve-and-merge:
-      runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-      if: ${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && github.actor == 'googlemaps-bot[bot]' }}
-      env:
-        PR_URL: ${{ github.event.pull_request.html_url }}
-        GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      steps:
-        - name: Checkout code
-          uses: actions/checkout@v3
-
-        - name: Create Pull Request
-          id: cpr
-          run: |
-            echo "pull_request_url=$(gh pr create --title 'chore: automated output update (dist)' --body 'This PR contains updated build output from the dist branch.' --base main --head dist)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-
-        - name: Approve PR
-          run: gh pr review --approve ${{ steps.cpr.outputs.pull_request_url }}
-
-        - name: Merge PR
-          run: gh pr merge --auto --squash --delete-branch ${{ steps.cpr.outputs.pull_request_url }}