From 5c94629ef4f4174c9905e0ebf8fe4a3157d8cb78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "mergify[bot]" <37929162+mergify[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2025 16:25:34 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] github-actions: support for copying the backport labels
 (#42266) (#42279)

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 .github/workflows/mergify-labels-copier.yml | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .github/workflows/mergify-labels-copier.yml

diff --git a/.github/workflows/mergify-labels-copier.yml b/.github/workflows/mergify-labels-copier.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d5ff3ed0e48
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/mergify-labels-copier.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+name: mergify backport labels copier
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    types:
+      - opened
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  mergify-backport-labels-copier:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    if: startsWith(github.head_ref, 'mergify/bp/')
+    permissions:
+      # Add GH labels
+      pull-requests: write
+      # See https://github.com/cli/cli/issues/6274
+      repository-projects: read
+    steps:
+      - uses: elastic/oblt-actions/mergify/labels-copier@v1
+        with:
+          excluded-labels-regex: "^backport-*"