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Sync Upstream #724

Workflow file for this run

# This soft-fork of Gitea adds git-annex support (https://git-annex.branchable.com/)
# git-annex is like git-lfs, which Gitea already supports, but more complicated,
# except that it doesn't need an extra port open.
#
# We maintain three branches and N tags:
# - main - a mirror of upstream's main
# - git-annex - our patch (see it at: https://github.com/neuropoly/gitea/pull/1)
# - release-action - release scripts + our front page
# - $X-git-annex for each upstream tag $X (each created after we started tracking upstream, that is)
# which = $X + release-action + git-annex
#
# This branch, release-action, contains:
# - sync-upstream.yml (this) - try to update the branches/tags
# - release.yml - build and push to https://github.com/neuropoly/gitea/releases/
# and it is our default branch because cronjobs are
# only allowed to run on the default branch
name: 'Sync Upstream'
on:
workflow_dispatch:
schedule:
# 08:00 Montreal time, every day
- cron: '0 13 * * *'
jobs:
sync_upstream:
name: 'Sync Upstream'
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
#- name: debug - github object
# run: |
# echo '${{ tojson(github) }}'
- name: Git Identity
run: |
set -ex
git config --global user.name "Actions Bot"
# or 41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com ?
git config --global user.email [email protected]
#- name: Git config
# run: |
# set -ex
# # disambiguates 'git checkout' so it always uses this repo
# #git config --global checkout.defaultRemote origin
- id: generate_token
# The default token provided doesn't have enough rights
# for 'git push --tags' to trigger the build in release.yml:
#
# > When you use the repository's GITHUB_TOKEN to perform tasks, events
# > triggered by the GITHUB_TOKEN will not create a new workflow run.
# > This prevents you from accidentally creating recursive workflow runs.
#
# ref: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/security-guides/automatic-token-authentication#using-the-github_token-in-a-workflow
#
# But we're not making a recursive workflow, and really do want to
# trigger the release.yml workflow.
#
# https://github.com/tibdex/github-app-token works around this by
# trading OAuth credentials (created at the Organization level) for
# a token credential (which can't be created except at the user level)
#
# Two alternate solutions are:
#
# 1. Provide a personal token (https://github.com/settings/tokens) but then
# whoever does exposes their account to everyone in the organization,
# and the organization is exposed to DoS if the person ever leaves.
# 2. Use workflow_call: (https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/reusing-workflows)
# but this is a substantial amount of intricate code
# for something that should be simple.
#
# If you need to reconfigure this, know that you need to:
#
# 1. Create an OAuth credential at https://github.com/organizations/neuropoly/settings/apps
# a. Set 'Name' = 'gitea-sync'
# b. Set 'Homepage URL' = 'https://github.com/neuropoly/github-app-token'
# c. Uncheck 'Webhook'
# d. Set 'Repository permissions / Contents' = 'Access: Read & write'.
# e. Set 'Where can this GitHub App be installed' = 'Only on this account'
# 2. Click 'Generate Private Key'; it will download a .pem file to your computer.
# 3. Store the credential in the repo at https://github.com/neuropoly/gitea/settings/secrets/actions
# a. Set 'APP_ID' = the app ID displayed on https://github.com/organizations/neuropoly/settings/apps/gitea-sync
# b. Set 'APP_KEY' = the contents of the .pem file it downloaded.
# c. Now you can throw away the .pem file.
# 4. Install the app:
# a. Go to https://github.com/organizations/neuropoly/settings/apps/gitea-sync/installations
# b. Click 'Install'
# c. Pick this repo
# d. Click 'Install' for real this time
#
# ref: https://github.com/peter-evans/create-pull-request/blob/main/docs/concepts-guidelines.md#authenticating-with-github-app-generated-tokens
#
# Notice too: we've **forked** a copy of tibdex/github-app-token,
# to avoid passing our tokens through potentially untrusted code.
# Even if it is safe now, it might become malicious in the future.
uses: neuropoly/[email protected]
with:
app_id: ${{ secrets.APP_ID }}
private_key: ${{ secrets.APP_KEY }}
- uses: actions/checkout@v3
with:
token: ${{ steps.generate_token.outputs.token }}
- name: Add upstream
run: |
set -ex
PARENT=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/${{github.repository}} | jq -r '.parent.clone_url // empty')
git remote add upstream "$PARENT"
- name: Fetch current origin
run: |
set -ex
# Because actions/checkout does a lazy, shallow checkout
# we need to use --shallow-since to make sure there's
# enough common history that git can tell how the two
# branches relate.
#
# We *could* do a full checkout by setting depth: 0 above,
# but this is faster, especially on a large repo like this one.
#
# Since this runs daily, 1 week should be plenty.
git fetch '--shallow-since=1 week' origin main "${{ github.ref_name }}" git-annex
git fetch '--shallow-since=1 week' upstream main
- name: Sync main
# force main to be identical to upstream
# This throws away any commits to our local main
# so don't commit anything to that branch.
run: |
set -ex
git checkout -B main upstream/main
- name: Sync ${{ github.ref_name }}
run: |
set -ex
git checkout "${{ github.ref_name }}"
git rebase main
- name: Rebase git-annex, the feature branch
# This is the meatiest part of this script: rebase git-annex on top of upstream.
# Occasionally this step will fail -- when there's a merge conflict with upstream.
# In that case, you will get an email about it, and you should run these steps
# manually, and fix the merge conflicts that way.
run: |
set -ex
git checkout git-annex
git rebase main
- name: Construct latest version with git-annex on top
id: fork
run: |
# for the latest tag vX.Y.Z, construct tag vX.Y.Z-git-annex.
# Only construct the *latest* release to reduce the risk of conflicts
# (we have to ask 'git tag' instead of the more elegant method of syncing tags
# and using Github Actions' `on: push: tags: ...` because those upstream tags
# *don't contain this workflow*, so there would be no way to trigger this)
#
# This will trigger release.yml to build and publish the latest version, too
set -e
# git fetch is supposed to get any tags corresponding to commits it downloads,
# but this behaviour is ignored when combined with --shallow, and there doesn't
# seem to be any other way to get a list of tags without downloading all of them,
# which effectively does --unshallow. But the GitHub API provides a shortcut, and
# using this saves about 30s over downloading the unshallow repo:
PARENT_API=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/${{github.repository}} | jq -r '.parent.url // empty')
PARENT_TAGS=$(curl -s "$PARENT_API"| jq -r '.tags_url // empty')
RELEASE=$(curl -s "$PARENT_TAGS" | jq -r 'map(.name | select(test("dev") | not)) | first // empty')
# But if we decide to just unshallow the entire repo from the start,
# then you can use this instead:
#RELEASE="$(git tag -l --sort=-v:refname | egrep -v 'git-annex$' | head -n 1)"
if git fetch -q --depth 1 origin tag "$RELEASE"-git-annex 2>/dev/null; then
echo "$RELEASE-git-annex already published :tada:"
else
set -x
# BEWARE: the releases are tagged off of *release* branches:
# https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/tree/release/v1.18
# https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/tree/release/v1.17
#
# These were branched from 'main' at some point, and since
# have been added to with backport patches. For example,
# https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/19567 is the backport
# into v1.16 of https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/19566.
# In that case, the two patches were identical, but it's possible
# a merge conflict could force edits to the backport.
#
# To fit into their scheme, we would have to manuually maintain
# our own git-annex branch (based on upstream/main), another
# release/v1.18-git-annex (based on upstream/release/v1.18), and a
# release/v1.17-git-annex (based on upstream/release/v1.17), etc.
#
# That seems like a lot of work, so we're taking a shortcut:
# just cherry-pick main..git-annex on top of their releases
# and hope for the best.
#
# The only trouble I'm aware of with this is that a merge conflict
# will show up against upstream/main but might not exist against
# v1.19.1 or whatever the latest tag is; so fixing it for main will
# cause a different merge conflict with the release.
#
# But we only need each release to get tagged and published once
# (see: the if statement above), so the best way to handle that case
# is to manually fix the conflict against upstream/main, and at the
# same time manually tag the latest release without the additional fixes.
# This is basically the same work we would do anyway if we were manually
# backporting every update to a separate release branch anyway, but
# only needs to be investigated when the automated build fails.
#
# tl;dr: If this step fails due to merge conflicts, you should
# manually fix them and then manually create the tag,
# sidestepping this
# Because the tags don't share close history with 'main', GitHub would reject us
# pushing them as dangling commit histories. So this part has to be --unshallow.
# It takes longer but oh well, GitHub can afford it.
git fetch --unshallow upstream tag "$RELEASE"
git checkout -q "$RELEASE"
git cherry-pick main.."${{ github.ref_name }}" # Make sure release.yml is in the tag, so it triggers a build
git cherry-pick main..git-annex
git tag "$RELEASE"-git-annex
fi
- name: Upload everything back to Github
run: |
git push -f --all
git push -f --tags