📦 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 to true, 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 to true, the resulting pull request will be auto-merged, if all checks have passed
• If you set any approve parameter to true, 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.

📄 License

• Code: MIT © Koj
• "GitHub" is a trademark of GitHub, Inc.

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