# 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 (24h)" on: schedule: # * is a special character in YAML so you have to quote this string # Merge every 24 hours - cron: '0 0 * * *' jobs: periodic-merge: 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: haskell-updates - from: release-21.11 into: staging-next-21.11 - from: staging-next-21.11 into: staging-21.11 - from: release-22.05 into: staging-next-22.05 - from: staging-next-22.05 into: staging-22.05 name: ${{ matrix.pairs.from }} → ${{ matrix.pairs.into }} steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v3 - name: ${{ matrix.pairs.from }} → ${{ matrix.pairs.into }} uses: devmasx/merge-branch@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@v2 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 }}).