Cherry-picking a pull request commit into branchs

This action is designed to be used for cherry-pick commits from pull requests into release branches.

GitHub Cherry Pick Action will:

• Checkout triggered action.
• Create new branch name cherry-pick-${GITHUB_SHA} from branch input.
• Cherry-picking ${GITHUB_SHA} into created branch
• Push new branch to remote
• Open pull request to branch

Example

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: carloscastrojumo/github-cherry-pick-action@v1.0.1
        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: carloscastrojumo/github-cherry-pick-action@v1.0.1
        with:
          branch: release-v2.0
          labels: |
            cherry-pick
          reviewers: |
            aReviewerUser
env:
  GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Using outputs:

steps:
  - uses: actions/checkout@v3
  - uses: carloscastrojumo/github-cherry-pick-action@v1.0.1
    id: new-issue
    with:
      branch: release-v2.0
      labels: cherry-pick
    - run: |
        echo "${{ steps.new-issue.outputs.data }}"
        echo "${{ steps.new-issue.outputs.number }}" 
        echo "${{ steps.new-issue.outputs.html_url }}"

Working with forked repositories

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.

Example

on:
  pull_request_target:
    branches:
      - main
    types: ["closed"]
 ...

Mor informatoin can be found in the GitHub Blog

Action inputs

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@address.com>. Defaults to the GitHub Actions bot user.	GitHub <noreply@github.com>
author	The author name and email address in the format Display Name <email@address.com>. 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.

Action outputs

output	value
data	See Response
html_url	the issue's web url
number	the issue's number

License

MIT