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+name: rebase pull request
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+    - master
+jobs:
+  rebase:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: peter-evans/rebase@v1
+        with:
+          base: master
+      - name: Send failure message
+        uses: peter-evans/create-or-update-comment@v1
+        if: ${{ failure() }}
+        with:
+          issue-number: ${{ github.event.issue.number || github.event.number }}
+          body: |
+            Automatic rebasing for this PR has failed. You'll need to manually
+            rebase against the default branch.