From bfdeeb20488138bf016a71f099a3c63ecec19b04 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: lrangine <19699092+lokeshrangineni@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 15:39:25 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] setting the github_token explicitly to see if that solves
 the problem.

Signed-off-by: lrangine <19699092+lokeshrangineni@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 .github/workflows/release.yml | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index d76be8506f1..09fe7152dcf 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ jobs:
       GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL: feast-ci-bot@willem.co
       GIT_COMMITTER_NAME: feast-ci-bot
       GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL: feast-ci-bot@willem.co
+      GITHUB_REPOSITORY: ${{ github.repository }}
     steps:
       - name: Checkout code
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -201,6 +202,7 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           git config --global user.name "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
           git config --global user.email "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"
+          git remote set-url origin https://x-access-token:${GITHUB_TOKEN}@github.com/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}
 
       - name: Fetch all branches
         run: git fetch --all

From 9aaded7b19e0f01cd1af60d2f93fcc7d82ce3c6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: lrangine <19699092+lokeshrangineni@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 16:10:31 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Moving the job to seperate action so that we can test it
 easily.

Signed-off-by: lrangine <19699092+lokeshrangineni@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 .github/workflows/update_stable_branch.yml | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .github/workflows/update_stable_branch.yml

diff --git a/.github/workflows/update_stable_branch.yml b/.github/workflows/update_stable_branch.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b09af9cc2eb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/update_stable_branch.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+name: Update Stable Branch
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      token:
+        description: 'GitHub token to authenticate'
+        required: true
+        type: string
+
+jobs:
+  update_stable_branch:
+    name: Update Stable Branch after release
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    env:
+      GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ github.event.inputs.token }}
+      GIT_AUTHOR_NAME: feast-ci-bot
+      GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL: feast-ci-bot@willem.co
+      GIT_COMMITTER_NAME: feast-ci-bot
+      GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL: feast-ci-bot@willem.co
+      GITHUB_REPOSITORY: ${{ github.repository }}
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Set up Git credentials
+        run: |
+          git config --global user.name "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
+          git config --global user.email "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"
+          git remote set-url origin https://x-access-token:${GITHUB_TOKEN}@github.com/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}
+
+      - name: Fetch all branches
+        run: git fetch --all
+
+      - name: Reset stable branch to match release branch
+        run: |
+          git checkout -B stable origin/${GITHUB_REF#refs/heads/}
+          git push origin stable --force