envoyproxy/envoy

Auto-close dependabot PRs on envoyproxy repos other than envoy

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#19,954 opened on Feb 15, 2022

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Description

Description

Currently dependabot opens PRs on any mirror repos of envoyproxy/envoy.

This is annoying both for users forking the repo, and for mirror repos under the envoyproxy org

There is not an easy solution to this as i understand it, other than maintaining patch commits to remove the dependabot config etc

One possible solution wrt to mirror repos in the envoyproxy domain is that we add a gh action to auto-close these - this is what we currently do manually

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Create a GitHub Actions workflow that triggers on pull request events from dependabot, checks if the repository is a mirror (not the main envoyproxy/envoy), and automatically closes the PR with a comment.
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