I push a feature branch a dozen times a week. Every single time, the dance is the same: git push, switch to the browser, click the “Create MR” button, set assignee, set reviewer, add labels, wait for CI, click merge, switch back to terminal, git checkout main, git pull, git branch -d feature/.... It’s not hard. It’s just tedious — and the kind of friction that adds up over a week.

I had a shell script glued together with glab, gh, jq, yq, and gum doing this for years. It worked, but it broke whenever any of those tools updated and was a pain to ship to a fresh laptop. So I rewrote the whole thing in Go and called it auto-mr. One binary, no external CLIs, works on both GitLab and GitHub.

Hosting a Helm Chart Repository on GitHub with chart-releaser

GitHub Pages plus the helm/chart-releaser-action is the de facto way to turn a GitHub repository into a Helm chart repository. No extra hosting, no separate registry — just a gh-pages branch and a workflow file.

This post walks through the layout I use in practice: one repository for the application, a separate one for the chart.