Automatically approve unmodified dependabot requests #46
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Signed-off-by: Simon Davies <[email protected]>
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This PR automates the process of approval and merging of dependabot PRs and does it at a time when there should be less merging of "real" PRs taking place.
It does the following:
Sets the dependabot job to run at 03:00 UTC daily.
Runs a new job at 04:00 UTC daily which checks for any open PRs, for any PR that all of the following conditions are true:
The job will then set auto approve squash property on the PR (dependabot commands are not used as they need to be issued by a real user). These changes are made by an app as this means that as they show up as dependabot-pr-auto-approver) , additionally the app token is limited to the permissions required by this job and cannot obtain any other permissions unless the app is updated.