ci: remove auto-rebase

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Removed automated PR rebase workflow that previously rebased open pull requests against the dev branch
  • Updated CI/CD documentation and workflow messaging to indicate that pull requests targeting dev will now require manual rebasing by their authors

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📒 Files selected for processing (2)

• .github/workflows/auto-rebase-prs.yaml
• .github/workflows/release-semantic.yaml

💤 Files with no reviewable changes (1)

• .github/workflows/auto-rebase-prs.yaml

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

This PR removes the GitHub Actions auto-rebase workflow and updates documentation in the release-semantic workflow to reflect that open PRs targeting dev now require manual rebase by authors instead of automated rebasing.

Changes

Workflow Documentation Update

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Rebase responsibility update in release workflow .github/workflows/release-semantic.yaml	Updated top-level comment and step summary text to reflect that open PRs targeting dev now require manual rebase by authors, replacing the prior auto-rebase workflow.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 1 (Trivial) | ⏱️ ~2 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• community-shaders/skyrim-community-shaders#2383: Added the auto-rebase-prs.yaml workflow that this PR removes, and contains related release-semantic.yaml rebase-reconcile logic that this PR updates as documentation.

Suggested reviewers

• jiayev
• doodlum

Poem

🐰 The auto-rebaser hops away,
Authors now rebase their way today,
Workflows shift with gentle care,
Docs reflect the change so fair! ✨

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and specifically identifies the main change: removal of the auto-rebase CI workflow functionality.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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✨ Finishing Touches

🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

• Create PR with unit tests
• Commit unit tests in branch remove-auto-rebase

Warning

There were issues while running some tools. Please review the errors and either fix the tool's configuration or disable the tool if it's a critical failure.

🔧 actionlint (1.7.12)

.github/workflows/release-semantic.yaml

could not read ".github/workflows/release-semantic.yaml": open .github/workflows/release-semantic.yaml: no such file or directory

🔧 zizmor (1.25.2)

.github/workflows/release-semantic.yaml

INFO zizmor: 🌈 zizmor v1.25.2
fatal: no audit was performed
invalid input: .github/workflows/release-semantic.yaml

🔧 YAMLlint (1.38.0)

.github/workflows/release-semantic.yaml

[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '.github/workflows/release-semantic.yaml'

🔧 Checkov (3.2.529)

.github/workflows/release-semantic.yaml

2026-05-20 17:40:32,867 [MainThread ] [ERROR] Template file not found: .github/workflows/release-semantic.yaml
2026-05-20 17:40:32,974 [MainThread ] [ERROR] Template file not found: .github/workflows/release-semantic.yaml
2026-05-20 17:40:33,021 [MainThread ] [ERROR] Template file not found: .github/workflows/release-semantic.yaml
2026-05-20 17:40:33,016 [MainThread ] [ERROR] Failed to invoke function /usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/checkov/common/runners/object_runner. with .github/workflows/release-semantic.yaml
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/checkov/common/parallelizer/parallel_runner.py", line 88, in func_wrapper
result = original_func(item)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/checkov/common/runners/object_runner.py", line 74, in
results = parallel_runner.run_function(lambda f: (f, self._parse_file(f)), files_to_load)

... [truncated 9250 characters] ...

ess file .github/workflows/release-semantic.yaml
2026-05-20 17:40:33,635 [MainThread ] [ERROR] Exception traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/checkov/main.py", line 647, in run
self.scan_reports = runner_registry.run(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/checkov/common/runners/runner_registry.py", line 177, in run
for result in parallel_runner_results:
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/checkov/common/parallelizer/parallel_runner.py", line 118, in _run_function_multiprocess_fork
raise v.internal_exception.with_traceback(v.internal_exception.traceback)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '.github/workflows/release-semantic.yaml'

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