Merge pull request #2130 from VWS-Python/dependabot-automerge

Automatically merge dependabot PRs once status checks pass

.github/workflows/dependabot-merge.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+---
+
+name: Dependabot auto-merge
+on: pull_request
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+  pull-requests: write
+
+jobs:
+  dependabot:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    if: github.actor == 'dependabot[bot]'
+    steps:
+      - name: Dependabot metadata
+        id: metadata
+        uses: dependabot/fetch-metadata@v1
+        with:
+          github-token: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
+      - name: Enable auto-merge for Dependabot PRs
+        run: gh pr merge --auto --merge "$PR_URL"
+        env:
+          PR_URL: ${{github.event.pull_request.html_url}}
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ jobs:
 
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          # See
+          # https://github.com/stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action?tab=readme-ov-file#push-to-protected-branches
+          token: ${{ secrets.RELEASE_PAT }}
 
       - name: "Set up Python"
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5