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 <details>
 <summary>The action can be used to auto-merge a dependabot PR with minor and patch updates.</summary>
 
+The action is called by creating a PR. Dependabot must have ownership of the corresponding dependency files in order to be able to merge the PRs.
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 ```yml
 name: Enable Dependabot Auto-Merge