GitBot – automating boring Git operations with CI

This post introduces the automation of Git operations within GitLab CI. It details how to configure a CI job to automatically rebase a 'ts' branch onto the 'master' branch after a new version is committed to 'master'. It also describes how to automate the creation of merge requests to update dependency versions (NEDs) in a separate repository (`nso-ts`) when new artifacts are produced by a CI build. The post provides specific `.gitlab-ci.yml` configurations for these automation tasks, including SSH key setup, Git operations, and variable usage.