From 6b432af417e128ce189135c445929f7e80b6b080 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Juha Uotila <10782843+inffy@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2026 09:09:16 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] fix(ci): fix the backport action to use the base ref

---
 .github/workflows/cherry-pick-to-stable.yml | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/cherry-pick-to-stable.yml b/.github/workflows/cherry-pick-to-stable.yml
index f59a3ed4a..485f20e7b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/cherry-pick-to-stable.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cherry-pick-to-stable.yml
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ jobs:
         with:
           # Use the dynamically generated GitHub App token
           token: ${{ steps.generate-token.outputs.token }}
+          # Explicitly check out the base branch (the PR is already merged into it).
+          # Avoids the default `refs/pull/<PR>/merge` ref, which actions/checkout
+          # refuses to check out for fork PRs on pull_request_target events.
+          ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.base.ref }}
           fetch-depth: 0
 
       - name: Configure Git Author