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-name: Create a dummy PR
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch:
-
-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
-jobs:
-  create:
-    permissions:
-      contents: write
-      pull-requests: write
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
-
-      - name: Need to make some kind of change, and this workflow will no longer be needed after running it the one time, so...
-        run: git rm .github/workflows/create-dummy-pr.yml
-
-      - name: Use CLA approved bot
-        run: .github/scripts/use-cla-approved-bot.sh
-
-      - uses: actions/create-github-app-token@df432ceedc7162793a195dd1713ff69aefc7379e # v2.0.6
-        id: otelbot-token
-        with:
-          app-id: 1296620
-          private-key: ${{ secrets.OTELBOT_JAVA_CONTRIB_PRIVATE_KEY }}
-
-      - name: Create pull request against the release branch
-        env:
-          GH_TOKEN: ${{ steps.otelbot-token.outputs.token }}
-        run: |
-          message="A dummy PR to give otelbot-java-contrib one merged PR under its belt"
-          branch="otelbot/dummy-pr"
-
-          git checkout -b $branch
-          git commit -a -m "$message"
-          git push --set-upstream origin $branch
-          gh pr create --title "$message" \
-                       --body "$message." \
-                       --base main