chore: restrict GitHub workflow permissions - future-proof #5276
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Signed-off-by: Melissa Kilby <[email protected]>
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May I kindly check in on the status of this PR? Thank you. |
shahmishal
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Oct 17, 2025
| name: Create PR to merge release branch into the main branch | ||
| # At the end of a release cycle, we may want to automatically include all changes to release branches on the main branch to avoid the need for cherry-picking changes back to release branches | ||
| # This workflow can be disabled earlier in the release cycle in the GitHub UI as described in https://docs.github.com/en/actions/managing-workflow-runs-and-deployments/managing-workflow-runs/disabling-and-enabling-a-workflow | ||
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Same question I asked in different PR in swift-format.
How does this change impact the permissions set inside jobs.
permissions:
contents: write
pull-requests: write
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See answer in the swift-format PR: swiftlang/swift-format#1073 (comment)
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See swiftlang/github-workflows#167 for additional context
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