apply-dependency-pr

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Apply and merge a Dependabot dependency-update PR in this repo — checkout the PR, regenerate versions.lock, run the full build, then commit the lock, push, and squash-merge. Use when the user wants to review/apply/merge a dependency (e.g. "dependencies" labeled) PR.

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Apply a dependency-update PR

Workflow for landing a Dependabot dependency bump in carrot2. Dependabot updates gradle/libs.versions.toml and the Gradle wrapper but does not regenerate the root versions.lock; because this repo uses a lockfile, the check task fails against a stale lock. So the lock must be regenerated locally, verified, committed back to the PR branch, and only then merged.

Steps

Pick the PR. If the user didn't name one, list candidates and ask which to apply:
```
gh pr list --label dependencies --state open --limit 20
```
Checkout the PR branch:
```
gh pr checkout <num>
```
Regenerate the lock and run the full check (compiles against the new deps and runs the whole test suite — this is the authoritative gate). Takes a few minutes:
```
./gradlew writeLocks check
```
Evaluate the result:
- BUILD FAILED or test regressions → stop. Report the failing task/output to the user. Do not commit or merge; investigate first.
- BUILD SUCCESSFUL, no regressions → continue.
- Watch behavioral-change risk areas: minor Lucene bumps (analysis/tokenization tests) and morfologik bumps (Polish stemming/spell tests).
Inspect and commit the regenerated lock. writeLocks normally only touches versions.lock; confirm the diff is pure version bumps for the expected deps:
```
git diff versions.lock
git add versions.lock   # plus any other files writeLocks changed
git commit -m "Regenerate versions.lock for java-deps bump (#<num>)"
git push
```
Skip this step if writeLocks produced no changes.
Squash-merge and delete the branch (matches the repo's dependency-merge history):
```
gh pr merge <num> --squash --delete-branch
```

Verify:

gh pr view <num> --json state,mergedAt   # state == MERGED
git log --oneline -3                      # squashed commit on master

Notes

Do not add a Co-Authored-By / Claude attribution trailer to the commit.
Local check passing is the authoritative signal; the merge does not wait on remote CI unless the user asks otherwise.
Default merge method is squash + delete-branch. Confirm with the user if they want a merge-commit or rebase instead.