From fa779930679f4d2ca2c1df8de1b2944277f99d00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Mulhall <ryan.mulhall@llt-4421743.ad.gfdl.noaa.gov>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 14:55:14 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] add action options

---
 .github/workflows/version.yml | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/version.yml b/.github/workflows/version.yml
index 9f7e94158..237ee5831 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/version.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/version.yml
@@ -8,3 +8,8 @@ jobs:
       run: sed -i '/20[0-9][0-9]\.[0-9][0-9]/ s/]/-dev]/' configure.ac 
     - name: Create pull request
       uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v4 
+      with:
+        base: main                   # creates a new branch off of main
+        branch: add-dev-post-release # name of the created branch
+        branch-suffix: timestamp     # add a timestamp to branch name
+        delete-branch: true          # delete afer merge