From 7684b036a131ac77e76ade54375a5e371d816e1b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Amaury Pouly <amaury.pouly@lowrisc.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:23:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [ot] .github/workflows: create_release: fix the release
 workflow

The workflow was checking out the default branch instead of the ref
on which the workflow was triggered.

Signed-off-by: Amaury Pouly <amaury.pouly@lowrisc.org>
---
 .github/workflows/create_release.yml | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/create_release.yml b/.github/workflows/create_release.yml
index 2091ed9319f0d..9321736dd17e8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/create_release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/create_release.yml
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ jobs:
       contents: write
     env:
       BUILD_DIR: build
-      BRANCH_NAME: ${{ github.event.repository.default_branch }}
       RELEASE_BIN_ARCHIVE: qemu-ot-earlgrey-${{ inputs.release_tag }}-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz
     runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     timeout-minutes: 10
@@ -45,7 +44,7 @@ jobs:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
         run: |
           gh release create \
-            --target "$BRANCH_NAME" \
+            --target "$GITHUB_SHA" \
             ${{ inputs.release_tag }} \
             --generate-notes \
             "$RELEASE_BIN_ARCHIVE#QEMU system emulator"