Periodic Merges (6h) #3092
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| # This action periodically merges base branches into staging branches. | |
| # This is done to | |
| # * prevent conflicts or rather resolve them early | |
| # * make all potential breakage happen on the staging branch | |
| # * and make sure that all major rebuilds happen before the staging | |
| # branch get’s merged back into its base branch. | |
| name: "Periodic Merges (6h)" | |
| on: | |
| schedule: | |
| # * is a special character in YAML so you have to quote this string | |
| # Merge every 6 hours | |
| - cron: '0 */6 * * *' | |
| workflow_dispatch: | |
| permissions: | |
| contents: read | |
| jobs: | |
| periodic-merge: | |
| permissions: | |
| contents: write # for devmasx/merge-branch to merge branches | |
| pull-requests: write # for peter-evans/create-or-update-comment to create or update comment | |
| if: github.repository_owner == 'NixOS' | |
| runs-on: ubuntu-latest | |
| strategy: | |
| # don't fail fast, so that all pairs are tried | |
| fail-fast: false | |
| # certain branches need to be merged in order, like master->staging-next->staging | |
| # and disabling parallelism ensures the order of the pairs below. | |
| max-parallel: 1 | |
| matrix: | |
| pairs: | |
| - from: master | |
| into: staging-next | |
| - from: staging-next | |
| into: staging | |
| name: ${{ matrix.pairs.from }} → ${{ matrix.pairs.into }} | |
| steps: | |
| - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2 | |
| - name: ${{ matrix.pairs.from }} → ${{ matrix.pairs.into }} | |
| uses: devmasx/merge-branch@854d3ac71ed1e9deb668e0074781b81fdd6e771f # 1.4.0 | |
| with: | |
| type: now | |
| from_branch: ${{ matrix.pairs.from }} | |
| target_branch: ${{ matrix.pairs.into }} | |
| github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} | |
| - name: Comment on failure | |
| uses: peter-evans/create-or-update-comment@71345be0265236311c031f5c7866368bd1eff043 # v4.0.0 | |
| if: ${{ failure() }} | |
| with: | |
| issue-number: 105153 | |
| body: | | |
| Periodic merge from `${{ matrix.pairs.from }}` into `${{ matrix.pairs.into }}` has [failed](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/actions/runs/${{ github.run_id }}). |