clean gitignore and add crete-test-pr

argocd-apps/.gitignore

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+.vscode/
+.idea/

create-test-pr.yaml

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+name: Create PR
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      TARGET_BRANCH:
+        description: 'TARGET_BRANCH to checkout (e.g. release-2.5)'
+        required: true
+        type: string
+      TARGET_VERSION:
+        description: 'TARGET_VERSION to build manifests (e.g. 2.5.0-rc1) Note: the `v` prefix is not used'
+        required: true
+        type: string
+permissions: {}
+jobs:
+  prepare-release:
+    permissions:
+      contents: write  # for peter-evans/create-pull-request to create branch
+      pull-requests: write  # for peter-evans/create-pull-request to create a PR
+    name: Automatically generate version and manifests on release-2.5
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@8410ad0602e1e429cee44a835ae9f77f654a6694  # v4.0.0
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          ref: ${{ inputs.TARGET_BRANCH }}
+      - name: Create VERSION information
+        run: |
+          set -ue
+          echo "Bumping version from $(cat VERSION) to ${{ inputs.TARGET_VERSION }}"
+          echo "${{ inputs.TARGET_VERSION }}" > VERSION
+      - name: Create pull request
+        uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@5e914681df9dc83aa4e4905692ca88beb2f9e91f # v7.0.5
+        with:
+          commit-message: "Bump version to ${{ inputs.TARGET_VERSION }}"
+          title: "Bump version to ${{ inputs.TARGET_VERSION }} on ${{ inputs.TARGET_BRANCH }} branch"
+          body: Updating VERSION and manifests to ${{ inputs.TARGET_VERSION }}
+          branch: update-version
+          branch-suffix: random
+          signoff: true
+          labels: release