Add workflow to auto-update dependent repos on release - #34
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Looks good. Definitely an improvement over manually updating each dependent repo. One thought: have we considered publishing common-utils as a scoped npm package (e.g. @matlab-actions/common-utils) so we can lean on npm's version management infrastructure? That would eliminate the need for a custom workflow and the cross-repo PAT.
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Summary
run-command,run-tests, andrun-buildto bump theircommon-utilsdependency whenever a new release is published.workflow_dispatchfor ad-hoc version bumps.gh pr create(no third-party actions) to create PRs on dependent repos.How it works
common-utilsgit reference inpackage.jsonpackage-lock.jsonPrerequisites
REPOS_ACCESS_TOKENsecret with contents (read/write) and pull request (read/write) permissions on the dependent repos.