feat/general-refinement - Improve Dependabot auto-merge to include major updates

- Enable auto-merge for major version updates of CI dependencies
- Change merge strategy from --merge to --squash for cleaner history
- Allow automatic handling of all semver update types (patch, minor, major)
- Reduce manual intervention needed for routine dependency updates

Author: Zvi Fried

.github/workflows/dependabot-auto-merge.yml

@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ jobs:
         with:
           github-token: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
 
-      - name: Auto-merge Dependabot PRs for patch and minor updates
-        if: steps.metadata.outputs.update-type == 'version-update:semver-patch' || steps.metadata.outputs.update-type == 'version-update:semver-minor'
-        run: gh pr merge --auto --merge "$PR_URL"
+      - name: Auto-merge Dependabot PRs for all CI dependency updates
+        if: steps.metadata.outputs.update-type == 'version-update:semver-patch' || steps.metadata.outputs.update-type == 'version-update:semver-minor' || steps.metadata.outputs.update-type == 'version-update:semver-major'
+        run: gh pr merge --auto --squash "$PR_URL"
         env:
           PR_URL: ${{github.event.pull_request.html_url}}
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}