Clone does not preserve uncommitted changes. This was leading to the gradle.properties update being lost. (#2299)

Author: LukeMathWalker

tools/ci-scripts/upgrade-gradle-properties

@@ -20,11 +20,8 @@ cat gradle.properties
 git status
 popd
 
-# Clone smithy-rs repo changes (changelog updates) into
-# the `smithy-rs-release` artifact for push to GitHub
 pushd "${ARTIFACTS_DIR}"
-git clone "${SMITHY_RS_DIR}"
-# Copy over the original remotes so that it's possible to push to `origin`
-cp "${SMITHY_RS_DIR}/.git/config" smithy-rs/.git/config
+mkdir -p smithy-rs
+cp -r "${SMITHY_RS_DIR}" .
 git -C smithy-rs status
 popd