Backport of [VAULT-34829] pipeline(backport): add github create backport
command into release/1.19.x
#30749
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Backport
This PR is auto-generated from #30713 to be assessed for backporting due to the inclusion of the label backport/1.19.x.
The below text is copied from the body of the original PR.
Description
Add a new
github create backport
sub-command that can create a backport of a given pull request. The command has been designed around a Github Actions workflow where it is triggered on a closed pull request event with a guard that checks for merges:Eventually this sub-command (or another similar one) can be used to implemente backporting a CE pull request to the corresponding ce/* branch in vault-enterprise. This functionality will be implemented in VAULT-34827.
This backport runner has several new behaviors not present in the existing backport assistant:
.release/versions.hcl
) then we will skip creating a backport in most cases. The exceptions are changes that include docs, README, or pipeline changes as we assume that even inactive branches will want those changes.backport/1.19.x
.main
is always assumed to be active.TODO only if you're a HashiCorp employee
backport/
label that matches the desired release branch. Note that in the CE repo, the latest release branch will look likebackport/x.x.x
, but older release branches will bebackport/ent/x.x.x+ent
.of a public function, even if that change is in a CE file, double check that
applying the patch for this PR to the ENT repo and running tests doesn't
break any tests. Sometimes ENT only tests rely on public functions in CE
files.
in the PR description, commit message, or branch name.
description. Also, make sure the changelog is in this PR, not in your ENT PR.
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