Create Catchup PR

GitHub Action to sync branchs with one source branch across different forks. First a new branch is created from source then PR is created between new branch and target branch. New branch is created so that you can fix conflicts if any cause source branch might be protected in some case. To work properly delete created branches after merging them.

Inputs

GITHUB_TOKEN

Required The token to be used for creating the pull request. Can be set to the one given for the workflow or another user.

GITHUB_REPO

Required Github repo with owner name. ${{ github.repository }}

SOURCE_BRANCH

Required The branch you want to make the pull request from.

SOURCE_REPO

Optional The repo you want to make the pull request from.

TARGET_BRANCH

Required The branchs you want to make the pull request to. Multiple branches need to be separate by comma like in example

TITLE

Optional Title for the pull request

BODY

Optional Body for the pull request

DRAFT

Optional To create a draft pull request (value: "true"/"false", default: "false").

Outputs

PULL_REQUEST_URL

Set to the URL of either the pull request that was opened by this action or the one that was found to already be open between the two branches.

PULL_REQUEST_NUMBER

Pull request number from generated pull request or the currently open one

Example

name: Sync
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master

jobs:
  sync-branches:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: Catching up branches
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Set up Node
        uses: actions/setup-node@v1
        with:
          node-version: 12
      - name: Create Catchup PR
        uses: shubhsherl/create-catchup-pr@v0.1.0
        with:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}
          GITHUB_REPO: ${{github.repository}}
          SOURCE_REPO: "octocat"
          SOURCE_BRANCH: "master"
          TARGET_BRANCH: "develop,experiment"

Modified version of action Create Sync PR with support of creating pr from different forks.