manually commit and push changes

Author: CRThaze

.github/workflows/release.yaml

@@ -18,15 +18,43 @@ jobs:
           fetch-tags: true
           ref: main
 
+      - name: Save HEAD SHA before helm-docs
+        id: save-sha
+        run: |
+          echo "sha=$(git rev-parse HEAD)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+
       - name: Render helm docs inside the README.md and push changes back to PR branch
         uses: losisin/helm-docs-github-action@v1
         with:
           output-file: ../../README.md
           template-files: README.md.gotmpl
-          git-push: true
-          git-push-user-name: "CometActions"
-          git-push-user-email: "[email protected]"
-          git-commit-message: "Update Helm documentation"
+          git-push: false
+
+      - name: Check for README changes
+        id: check-changes
+        run: |
+          if git diff --quiet ${{ steps.save-sha.outputs.sha }} -- README.md
+          then
+            echo "has_changes=false" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          else
+            echo "has_changes=true" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          fi
+
+      - name: Commit and push
+        if: steps.check-changes.outputs.has_changes == 'true'
+        run: |
+          git config --global user.name "${{ github.actor }}"
+          git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
+
+          # stage any file changes to be committed
+          git add README.md
+
+          # make commit with staged changes
+          git commit -m 'Update README.md with helm-docs'
+
+          # push the commit back up to source GitHub repository
+          git push
+
   release:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     needs: