diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 8aec874fb9..df0d0deae6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -134,10 +134,7 @@ jobs:
         DRY_RUN: ${{ inputs.dry_run }}
       run: |
         # The file was actually changed, we need to commit the changes
-        git diff-index --quiet HEAD || git -c 'user.name=AWS SDK Rust Bot' -c 'user.email=aws-sdk-rust-primary@amazon.com' commit gradle.properties --message "Upgrade the smithy-rs runtime crates version to ${SEMANTIC_VERSION}"
-        echo "Pushing upgraded gradle.properties commit..."
-        # This will succeed even if nothing new was committed
-        git push origin
+        git diff-index --quiet HEAD || git -c 'user.name=AWS SDK Rust Bot' -c 'user.email=aws-sdk-rust-primary@amazon.com' commit gradle.properties --message "Upgrade the smithy-rs runtime crates version to ${SEMANTIC_VERSION}" && git push origin
 
   release:
     name: Release