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Rebasing all relevant pull requests on a Github repo

If you chose rebasing as your primary git workflow strategy, it becomes important to keep your feature branches updated. Out of the box, Github offers automatic rebasing on many Dependabot pull requests. Dependabot PRs can be further rebased semi-automatically using the @dependabot rebase command issued in the comments.

For all other PRs, you need to set up a bot or a Github Action to do this automatically. One such action that could be used is peter-evans/rebase:

name: Rebase
on:
  schedule:
    - cron:  '40 7 * * *'
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  rebase:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: peter-evans/rebase@v2
        with:
          # token: ${{ secrets.GH_PAT }} 
          # exclude-drafts: true …

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