Xamarin Backport Bot

Note: this is used for internal use only.

Contains an action that's responsible for running an Azure DevOps build which backports a PR based on one branch to another branch.

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Deploying

Release management of the backport bot action is done though git tags. At present, the current release can be found at v1.0.

For Staging, please use the v1.0-alpha tag or create a new tag specific to your PR, especially if there are multiple changes in flight.

To deploy your changes, please:

1. Update the tag locally with:

git tag -f $TAG_NAME

2. Push the tag to the remote (https://github.com/xamarin/backport-bot-action):

git push --tags

Please note that for updating the v1.0 tag (or any other tag you want to push if it already exists), you will need to push --force to overwrite the existing tag.

In order to pick up the changes for Staging, make sure that the backport trigger YAML in your target repo (usually found at https://github.com/xamarin/$REPO_NAME/blob/main/.github/workflows/backport-trigger.yml) points to your desired tag.

For example, https://github.com/xamarin/.github/blob/main/.github/workflows/backport-trigger.yml#L13, the uses line should be updated as follows:

      - uses: xamarin/backport-bot-action@$TAG_NAME

where $TAG_NAME is filled in with the actual name of the tag.