Github Action to Cherry Pick commits from a branch (generally, master) and create a PR on another branch (Release branch).

Most of the projects have Release branches and master branch. Master branch is where developers works on but we want to push the changes to the Release branches too.

• Push to the monitored branch X
• Get the last commit SHA
• Checkout the other branch, Y
• Create a new pr branch Z on the branch Y
• Cherry Pick the commits from X into Z
• Push the branch and create the PR on base Y
• PR title will be prefixed with AUTO

• If base branch commit contains AUTO, it wont recreate the PR.

Required The branch name of on which PR should be created from the cherry-pick commit.

Labels to apply on the PR created. Default: autocreated

In this example, all the merges to the branch 0.1.0 will create a PR on 0.1.X branch too.

name: PR for release branch
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - 0.1.0
jobs:
  release_pull_request:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: release_pull_request
    steps:
    - name: checkout
      uses: actions/checkout@v1
    - name: Create PR to branch
      uses: gorillio/cherry-pick@master
      with:
        pr_branch: '0.1.x'
      env:
        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        GITBOT_EMAIL: <BOT_EMAIL>
        DRY_RUN: false