Make backporting action use PRs to support protected branches [DOC-268] #1396
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In DOC-255, branch protection was added - preventing direct
push
es.Instead, the backport workflow should create PRs to backport the changes. This gives the possibility for pre-merge checks to be run (i.e. preventing introducing dead links etc).
Leverages existing
backport
tool, but exposed some issues which need to be addressed before this can be merged:/
in name [DOC-268] backport#14omit-labels
functionality [DOC-268] backport#15Tested in a test repo, where a dummy PR was successfully backported. However, due to the complexity of fork-triggering, it wil need to be re-tested once merged.
Fixes: DOC-268