Periodic Merges (6h) #3176
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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@44c2b7a8a4ea60a981eaca3cf939b5f4305c123b # v4.1.5 | |
- 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 }}). |