From 4492d19202eb1ac2249b6c34400f13ac304d134c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Coates <8012398+big-andy-coates@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 22:11:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Workflow for auto-merging dependabot prs (#242)

Managing dependabot PRs is becoming too time-consuming... so automate!
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 .github/workflows/dependabot-auto-merge.yml | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .github/workflows/dependabot-auto-merge.yml

diff --git a/.github/workflows/dependabot-auto-merge.yml b/.github/workflows/dependabot-auto-merge.yml
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+# A Workflow for messing around in.
+
+name: Playgroup
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - main
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+  pull-requests: write
+
+jobs:
+  dependabot:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    if: ${{ github.actor == 'dependabot[bot]' }}
+    steps:
+      - name: Dependabot metadata
+        id: metadata
+        uses: dependabot/fetch-metadata@v1
+        with:
+          github-token: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
+      - name: Approve PR
+        run: gh pr review --approve "$PR_URL"
+        env:
+          PR_URL: ${{github.event.pull_request.html_url}}
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}
+      - name: Enable auto-merge for Dependabot PRs
+        if: ${{ steps.dependabot-metadata.outputs.update-type != 'version-update:semver-major' }}
+        run: gh pr merge --auto --squash "$PR_URL"
+        env:
+          PR_URL: ${{github.event.pull_request.html_url}}
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}