From 217dc97d70a3280b6817e184e07c7d707cdb0786 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: peter-evans <18365890+peter-evans@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 11:44:13 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] [CI] test committed

---
 dist/index.js | 6 ++++--
 report.txt    | 1 +
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 report.txt

diff --git a/dist/index.js b/dist/index.js
index 0af2ad0513..4169be0d8b 100644
--- a/dist/index.js
+++ b/dist/index.js
@@ -1644,8 +1644,10 @@ class GitHubHelper {
     createOrUpdateRef(branchRepository, branch, newHead) {
         return __awaiter(this, void 0, void 0, function* () {
             const repository = this.parseRepository(branchRepository);
-            const branchExists = yield this.octokit.rest.repos
-                .getBranch(Object.assign(Object.assign({}, repository), { branch: branch }))
+            // Check the git ref directly rather than using the branches API, which
+            // follows branch rename redirects and can return a different branch.
+            const branchExists = yield this.octokit.rest.git
+                .getRef(Object.assign(Object.assign({}, repository), { ref: `heads/${branch}` }))
                 .then(() => true, () => false);
             if (branchExists) {
                 core.info(`Branch ${branch} exists; Updating ref`);
diff --git a/report.txt b/report.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5061fff785
--- /dev/null
+++ b/report.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+1794311052