Add support for copying settings from a 'default' repository

[bkeepers]

When managing a project that has a lot of similar repositories, it would be helpful to have one repository with defaults that other repositories inherit from.

How it would work:

1. Create a repository named default, which has templates and a config for new repositories
2. When a new repository is created, it will automatically open a pull request that copies over the templates, one of which would be a .github/config.yml with an option that tells it to inherit from the default
3. Any future changes to the config in the default repository would be synced to repositories that inherit from it

[danielbachhuber]

Another implementation could be an inherit: <url> attribute, which inherits settings from an arbitrary YAML file.

This way, the inheritance would be just in time, instead of involving syncing.

[stale]

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[knrt10]

This is an interesting idea to work on. Let me try to implement this.

[ntwb]

FYI: probot-config now supports this via _extends, see https://github.com/getsentry/probot-config#setup

GitHub

getsentry/probot-config

probot-config - A Probot extension to easily share configs between repositories.

[knrt10]

@ntwb Yeah I stumbled upon it 2 days ago. Thanks by the way.

[stale]

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[travi]

I still think this would be a big help. The probot-config extension mentioned above sounds like a great solution. That's not already supported here, correct?

[stale]

Is this still relevant? If so, what is blocking it? Is there anything you can do to help move it forward?

[travi]

Still relevant

[jwsloan]

This can be accomplished today. We have a .github repo with a settings.yml file in it, and we extend that from there.

[stale]

Is this still relevant? If so, what is blocking it? Is there anything you can do to help move it forward?