dependabot-pr-action
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📦 Dependabot Pull Request Action
A GitHub Action to automatically label, approve, and merge pull requests made by Dependabot. This was built because the auto-merge feature was removed when Dependabot became a native-GitHub feature.
⭐ Get started
You can run this workflow, for example, once every hour:
name: Auto-merge minor/patch
on:
schedule:
- cron: "0 * * * *"
jobs:
test:
name: Auto-merge minor and patch updates
runs-on: ubuntu-18.04
steps:
- uses: koj-co/dependabot-pr-action@master
with:
token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
merge-minor: true
merge-patch: true
Inputs
token
(required)
Your GitHub token, usually {{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
or a personal access token if you have a bot account.
Optional inputs
To add labels to the Dependabot pull request, you can specify a comma-separated string of labels:
| Input | Description |
| ------------------- | ------------------------------ |
| labels-major
| Labels for major releases |
| labels-minor
| Labels for minor releases |
| labels-patch
| Labels for patch releases |
| labels-premajor
| Labels for premajor releases |
| labels-preminor
| Labels for preminor releases |
| labels-prepatch
| Labels for prepatch releases |
| labels-prerelease
| Labels for prerelease releases |
To configure the workflow, you can set any of these inputs to true
:
| Input | Description |
| ----------------------- | ------------------------------ |
| approve
| Approve all releases |
| approve-major
| Approve major releases |
| approve-minor
| Approve minor releases |
| approve-patch
| Approve patch releases |
| approve-premajor
| Approve premajor releases |
| approve-preminor
| Approve preminor releases |
| approve-prepatch
| Approve prepatch releases |
| approve-prerelease
| Approve prerelease releases |
| auto-label
| Auto label all releases |
| auto-label-major
| Auto label major releases |
| auto-label-minor
| Auto label minor releases |
| auto-label-patch
| Auto label patch releases |
| auto-label-premajor
| Auto label premajor releases |
| auto-label-preminor
| Auto label preminor releases |
| auto-label-prepatch
| Auto label prepatch releases |
| auto-label-prerelease
| Auto label prerelease releases |
| merge
| Merge all releases |
| merge-major
| Merge major releases |
| merge-minor
| Merge minor releases |
| merge-patch
| Merge patch releases |
| merge-premajor
| Merge premajor releases |
| merge-preminor
| Merge preminor releases |
| merge-prepatch
| Merge prepatch releases |
| merge-prerelease
| Merge prerelease releases |
- If you set any
auto-label
parameter totrue
, the release type (major, minor, etc.) label will be added to the pull request automatically, if all checks have passed - If you set any
merge
parameter totrue
, the resulting pull request will be auto-merged, if all checks have passed - If you set any
approve
parameter totrue
, the pull request will be automatically approved (with a pull request review), if all checks have passed
If you don't want to check for status checks, you can set the input ignore-status-checks
to true
. You can also set the merge-commit
input if you want a custom merge commit message.