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Add the ability to checkout the latest release using `gh release checkout`

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Description

### Describe the feature or problem you’d like to solve

We're using github codespaces to host and run utilities, often used by non-technical team members. If a user has a codespace created, we want to make sure they're using the latest release, instead of the `main` branch.

The `gh release view` command already shows the user to view the latest release if ran with no more arguments

### Proposed solution

A new command to checkout the tag/commit associated with a specific release. Similar to `gh pr checkout`, this command would behave the same as `gh release view`, and check out a provided tag, or the latest tag if none is provided. It would also include the same flags as the other checkout commands like `--force` `--recurse-submodules` etc

### Examples

```bash
gh release checkout
```
```bash
gh release checkout v1.0.2
```

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