Fork of this action: cherry-pick-action
We'd like to acknowledge cherry-pick-action for giving a great foundation for us to build additional functionality. Please check out that action if you think it better suits your needs.
Automatically create a cherry pick pull-request
to user defined labels
and/or static release branches!
This action will:
- Checkout the triggered action.
- Create the new branch name
cherry-pick-${GITHUB_SHA}
frombranch
input. - Cherry-pick the
${GITHUB_SHA}
into the createdbranch
- Push a new
branch
toremote
- Open a pull request to
branch
Differences from cherry-pick-action
In the other action, a user must specify the release branch in the workflow
; This action allows for users to input their own branches via labels
.
This action also supports specifying multiple release branches in one PR.
Head over to this repo to see this in "action"! (pun intended)
Take this pull request for example:
- Before or after merging the pull request
main
, the user specified the release branch they'd like to cherry pick that commit to. - By adding the
CP v2.0.0
label, the action opened this pull request on behalf of the user, according to the action's Configuration.
Usage depends on your needs. Please see the following options:
Do you want users to be able to specify the release branches dynamically via labels
?
- Please see User Defined Labels and its inputs.
Want to statically define a release branch or trigger it based on other logic?
- Please see Basic Configuration and its inputs
Some examples:
on:
pull_request:
branches:
- main
types: ["closed", "labeled"]
jobs:
cherry_pick_release_v1_0:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
name: Xealth Auto Cherry Picker
steps:
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v2
with:
fetch-depth: 0
- name: Xealth Auto Cherry Pick
uses: xealth/[email protected]
with:
allowUserToSpecifyBranchViaLabel: 'true'
labelPatternRequirement: 'CP v' <--- Every label that starts with "CP v" will be cherry picked
userBranchPrefix: 'v' <--- This add a prefix to the branch (if the branch starts with a prefix)
labels: |
cherry-pick
reviewers: |
aReviewerUser
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
Cherry-picking pull requests merged on main to branch release-v1.0 in pull requests labeled with release-v1.0 and to branch release-v2.0 in pull requests labeled with release-v2.0.
on:
pull_request:
branches:
- main
types: ["closed"]
jobs:
cherry_pick_release_v1_0:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
name: Cherry pick into release-v1.0
if: contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'release-v1.0')
steps:
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v2
with:
fetch-depth: 0
- name: Cherry pick into release-v1.0
uses: xealth/[email protected]
with:
branch: release-v1.0
labels: |
cherry-pick
reviewers: |
aReviewerUser
cherry_pick_release_v2_0:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
name: Cherry pick into release-v2.0
if: contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'release-v2.0')
steps:
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v2
with:
fetch-depth: 0
- name: Cherry pick into release-v2.0
uses: xealth/[email protected]
with:
branch: release-v2.0
labels: |
cherry-pick
reviewers: |
aReviewerUser
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
If your release branches do not change often, setting up user defined labels might not be necessary.
Name | Description | Default |
---|---|---|
token |
GITHUB_TOKEN or a repo scoped Personal Access Token (PAT). |
GITHUB_TOKEN |
committer |
The committer name and email address in the format Display Name <[email protected]> . Defaults to the GitHub Actions bot user. |
GitHub <[email protected]> |
author |
The author name and email address in the format Display Name <[email protected]> . Defaults to the user who triggered the workflow run. |
${{ github.actor }} <${{ github.actor }}@users.noreply.github.com> |
branch |
Name of the branch to merge the cherry pick. | create-pull-request/patch |
labels |
A comma or newline-separated list of labels. | |
assignees |
A comma or newline-separated list of assignees (GitHub usernames). | |
reviewers |
A comma or newline-separated list of reviewers (GitHub usernames) to request a review from. | |
team-reviewers |
A comma or newline-separated list of GitHub teams to request a review from. Note that a repo scoped PAT may be required. |
If you'd like users to cherry pick based on label input, see below:
Name | Description | Default |
---|---|---|
allowUserToSpecifyBranchViaLabel |
Must be true (string) if enabled, Allows the user to specify which branch or branches to cherry pick to via their label |
|
labelPatternRequirement |
If the above is true, a user can specify a label pattern to look for. Ex: "CP v" will find labels like "CP v1.0.0" | |
userBranchPrefix |
A prefix to apply to the release branches. Ex: v -> v1.0.0 or release- -> release-1.0.0 |
- Keep in mind,
branch
will be overriden ifallowUserToSpecifyBranchViaLabel
is set true! - Also,
labelPatternRequirement
searches for an exact match using.includes(labelPatternRequirement)
: We plan to support regex eventually
Note from the original author:
If you are using this action while working with forked repositories (e.g. when you get pull requests from external contributors), you will have to adapt the trigger to avoid permission problems.
In such a case you should use the pull_request_target
trigger, which was introduced by github for this usecase.
on:
pull_request_target:
branches:
- main
types: ["closed"]
...
More information can be found in the GitHub Blog
Please contribute by opening a pull-request! We recommend also opening a pull request to the original creator's repository as well.