Cherry-picking a pull request commit into branchs

This action is designed to be used for cherry-pick commits from pull requests into release branches.

GitHub Cherry Pick Action will:

• Checkout triggered action.
• Create new branch name cherry-pick-${GITHUB_SHA} from branch input.
• Cherry-picking ${GITHUB_SHA} into created branch
• Push new branch to remote
• Open pull request to branch

Example

Cherry-picking pull requests merged on main to branch release-v1.0 in pull requests labeled with release-v1.0 and to branch release-v2.0 in pull requests labeled with release-v2.0.

on:
  pull_request:
    branches:
      - main
    types: ["closed"]

jobs:
  cherry_pick_release_v1_0:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: Cherry pick into release-v1.0
    if: contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'release-v1.0')
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
      - name: Cherry pick into release-v1.0
        uses: carloscastrojumo/[email protected]
        with:
          branch: release-v1.0
          labels: |
            cherry-pick
          reviewers: |
            aReviewerUser
  cherry_pick_release_v2_0:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: Cherry pick into release-v2.0
    if: contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'release-v2.0')
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
      - name: Cherry pick into release-v2.0
        uses: carloscastrojumo/[email protected]
        with:
          branch: release-v2.0
          labels: |
            cherry-pick
          reviewers: |
            aReviewerUser
env:
  GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Action inputs

Name	Description	Default
token	GITHUB_TOKEN or a repo scoped Personal Access Token (PAT).	GITHUB_TOKEN
committer	The committer name and email address in the format Display Name <[email protected]>. Defaults to the GitHub Actions bot user.	GitHub <[email protected]>
author	The author name and email address in the format Display Name <[email protected]>. Defaults to the user who triggered the workflow run.	${{ github.actor }} <${{ github.actor }}@users.noreply.github.com>
branch	Name of the branch to merge the cherry pick.	create-pull-request/patch
labels	A comma or newline-separated list of labels.
assignees	A comma or newline-separated list of assignees (GitHub usernames).
reviewers	A comma or newline-separated list of reviewers (GitHub usernames) to request a review from.
team-reviewers	A comma or newline-separated list of GitHub teams to request a review from. Note that a repo scoped PAT may be required.

License

MIT