Auto Approve GitHub Dependabot Action

Name: cognitedata/auto-approve-dependabot-action

This is a fork of hmarr/auto-approve-action.

Automatically approve GitHub pull requests. The GITHUB_TOKEN secret must be provided as the github-token input for the action to work.

Usage instructions

Create a workflow file (e.g. .github/workflows/auto-approve.yml) that contains a step that uses: cognitedata/auto-approve-dependabot-action@v3.0.1. Here's an example workflow file:

name: Auto approve PRs by dependabot

# Trigger the workflow on pull request
on: pull_request_target

jobs:
  autoapprove:
    name: Auto-Approve a PR by dependabot
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Auto approve
        uses: cognitedata/auto-approve-dependabot-action@v3.0.1
        if: github.actor == 'dependabot[bot]' || github.actor == 'dependabot-preview[bot]'
        with:
          github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Why?

GitHub lets you prevent merges of unapproved pull requests. However, it's occasionally useful to selectively circumvent this restriction - for instance, some people want Dependabot's automated pull requests to not require approval.