feat(create-pr): Improve the version executed (SHA instead branch)

[alucardzom]

To unify the release method, I’ve tested and dumped the GH action variables at GitHub variable and it’s impossible on a reusable workflow to reuse the SHA used to call it, I’ve tried even testing it, but I can’t.

There is no mention of the Github-tools SHA, the github.action_ref works for a branch name (example) but not for an SHA (example) using it as mentioned in an issue (usage).
There is a few opened cases about this issue at GH pending to be solved:

• github.action_repository and github.action_ref are empty in run for composite actions actions/runner#2473
• https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/49245

So in the meantime this is fixed, I would prefer to pass the GitHub-tools-version SHA input until it’s fixed and then this variable could be removed, I prefer to pass a PR changing the SHA instead of letting someone break something at the main branch on Github tools by mistake and promote the change to main, which is currently how it works.

[jluque0101]

lgtm!

[Copilot]

Pull Request Overview

The PR refactors how the GitHub Tools version is passed (using SHA via github.action_ref), strengthens commit-generation scripts by ensuring branches exist and are up to date, and streamlines the platform release script’s branch naming and changelog commit logic.

• Make github-tools-version input optional, defaulting to the caller SHA
• Fetch and verify local/remote branches in generate-rc-commits.mjs
• Simplify get_release_branch_name and conditionally add commits.csv in the shell script

Reviewed Changes

Copilot reviewed 3 out of 3 changed files in this pull request and generated 2 comments.

File	Description
.github/workflows/create-release-pr.yml	Added optional github-tools-version input defaulting to github.action_ref and debug logs
.github/scripts/generate-rc-commits.mjs	Inserted git.fetch plus local/remote branch existence checks before commit filtering
.github/scripts/create-platform-release-pr.sh	Collapsed release-branch logic, commented old variants, and conditionally stage commits.csv

Comments suppressed due to low confidence (2)

.github/workflows/create-release-pr.yml:52

• Wrap the expression in quotes (e.g., default: '${{ github.action_ref }}') to ensure the YAML parser treats it as a string rather than attempting to interpolate prematurely.

 default: ${{ github.action_ref }}

.github/scripts/create-platform-release-pr.sh:231

• This line lacks a leading '+' in the diff and isn’t indented under the if block—ensure it’s only executed when ./commits.csv exists to avoid unintended adds.

 git add ./commits.csv

[Qbandev]

@alucardzom LGTM but copilot has in interesting (cosmetic) suggestion.

[Gudahtt]

Interesting. At first I thought the linked issue had a simple workaround (setting action_ref to an environment variable), but I dug a little further and even that doesn't work correctly for reusable workflows: actions/runner#2473 (comment)

But supposedly setting action_ref as a default value for an input parameter does work 😕 . Strange! But oh well, I guess if this is what works, that's all we can do.

[Gudahtt]

LGTM!

[Gudahtt]

Nit: Presumably this was a mistake? Not super important though