gh-pr-approve-and-auto-merge (GitHub CLI extension)

gh-pr-approve-and-auto-merge approves and auto-merges dependency bump pull requests. It verifies that each PR represents a version bump and that required checks are passing before approving and merging through the GitHub CLI.

Requirements

• GitHub CLI and an authenticated session (gh auth login).
• bats to run the test suite.

Installation

Install the extension via the GitHub CLI:

gh extension install sinanbolel/gh-pr-approve-and-auto-merge

You can also install from a local clone:

# from inside the cloned repository
gh extension install .

Usage

# preview actions without merging
gh pr approve-and-auto-merge 123,124,125 --dry-run

# approve and merge after confirmation
gh pr approve-and-auto-merge 42 --run --yes

Run gh pr approve-and-auto-merge --help for the full list of options.

Running the tests

With bats installed you can run the tests with:

bats test

If you prefer not to install bats globally, invoke it with npx:

npx bats test