initiate-publish.yml

name: 🚀 Initiate Publish

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      branch:
        description: 'Target branch'
        required: true
        default: 'develop'

concurrency: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}

env:
  GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

jobs:
  initiate_publish:
    name: 🚀 Initiate Publish
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: ⬇️ Checkout
        id: checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          token: ${{ env.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          fetch-depth: 0

      - name: 🔄 Create Merge Request
        uses: actions/github-script@v7
        with:
          script: |
            github.rest.pulls.create({
              owner: context.repo.owner,
              repo: context.repo.repo,
              head: '${{ github.event.inputs.branch }}',
              base: 'main',
              title: 'Merge ${{ github.event.inputs.branch }} into main',
              body: 'Automatically created merge request from workflow',
              maintainer_can_modify: true
            });