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Describe the feature request

When istio/api updates happen, the pipeline may update istio/client-go and istio/istio with the new istio/api sha. We don't update in the case of common-files updates). The istio/client-go job may then try and update istio/istio with the updated client-go sha, as well as the istio/api sha. Depending on ordering, one of the istio/istio jobs may end up with change issue.

Investigate if we can just update istio/client-go on an istio/api update and will the follow-on istio/istio update be sufficient. Will there be a case where istio/istio will not see the istio/api update?

Describe alternatives you've considered

Affected product area (please put an X in all that apply)

[ ] Docs
[ ] Installation
[ ] Networking
[ ] Performance and Scalability
[ ] Extensions and Telemetry
[ ] Security
[x] Test and Release
[ ] User Experience
[ ] Developer Infrastructure

Affected features (please put an X in all that apply)

[ ] Multi Cluster
[ ] Virtual Machine
[ ] Multi Control Plane

Additional context