Automate keeping this fork up to date #36

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delvh · 2023-03-29T16:28:36Z

delvh commented

2023-03-29 16:28:36 +00:00

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Feature description

I think maintaining this fork would be a lot easier if changes upstream were automatically added here as well.

So far, I've found two existing bots for that (

) that are both written for GitHub.com exclusively and in JS.
It might make sense to write a Bot based on that (in whatever language, i.e. Go), and offer it as one of Giteas official repos as well as this repo is not the only one that would benefit from having that sort of automation.

### Act version Irrelevant ### Feature description I think maintaining this fork would be a lot easier if changes upstream were automatically added here as well. So far, I've found two existing bots for that ( - https://github.com/wei/pull - https://github.com/backstrokeapp/server ) that are both written for GitHub.com exclusively and in JS. It might make sense to write a Bot based on that (in whatever language, i.e. Go), and offer it as one of Giteas official repos as well as this repo is not the only one that would benefit from having that sort of automation.

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wolfogre commented

2023-03-30 02:12:22 +00:00

TBH, based on past experience with resolving conflicts when merging upstream updates, I don't think it can be that simple. The upstream is not designed as a library, so many disruptive updates can occur.

To be clear, I have no objections to your idea, I just think we may need a better time to do this.

TBH, based on past experience with resolving conflicts when merging upstream updates, I don't think it can be that simple. The upstream is not designed as a library, so many disruptive updates can occur. To be clear, I have no objections to your idea, I just think we may need a better time to do this.

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silverwind commented

2023-06-30 16:58:43 +00:00

I think the idea of a "mirror plus some commits on top" is a idea worth exploring on its own for gitea itself. I would certainly have a few uses for such a mechanism myself.

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