From 5af661e70809e762938938d6515b874136eee3cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florent Poinsard <35779988+frouioui@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 23:32:58 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Automatic approval of `vitess-bot` clean backports (#14352)

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 .github/workflows/auto_approve_pr.yml | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .github/workflows/auto_approve_pr.yml

diff --git a/.github/workflows/auto_approve_pr.yml b/.github/workflows/auto_approve_pr.yml
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/auto_approve_pr.yml
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+name: Auto Approval of Bot Pull Requests
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    types: [opened, reopened]
+
+jobs:
+  auto_approve:
+    name: Auto Approve Pull Request
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+      - name: Auto Approve Pull Request
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          # here we are checking that the PR has been created by the vitess-bot[bot] account and that it is not a draft
+          # if there is a merge conflict in the backport, the PR will always be created as a draft, meaning we can rely
+          # on checking whether or not the PR is a draft
+          if [[ "${{github.event.pull_request.user.login}}" ==  "vitess-bot[bot]" ]] && [[ "${{github.event.pull_request.draft}}" == "false" ]]; then
+            gh pr review ${{ github.event.pull_request.number }} --approve
+          fi