XING act fork with patches applied

This repository is a fork of nektos/act with a few changes:

• The master branch is automatically updated with the latest changes from nektos/act workflow
• We have an orphan branch called distribution, which contains the patches and our workflows to sync the master branch and apply the patches
• We push the patched master branch as patched-master
• We publish a new release each time something changes (upstream master is updated or patches are updated)

Status

Development workflow

We have two different types of patches:

• "forever downstream" patches, so that we can deploy as xing/act and which will never be upstreamed
• "temporary" patches, which are PRs open on nektos/act that we expect to be merged soon

Creating "forever downstream" patches

In order to patch something that will never get upstreamed, we need to branch off of master and push the changes as patch/<patch-name>. We then create a draft PR against the master branch on xing/act to get the patch URL.

Next we branch off of distribution and add the URL of the previously created PR to the patches file and create a PR against the distribution branch on xing/act. This PR will try to apply all patches and run the tests. Once it succeeds, we can merge it so that the patches file on distribution contains all required patches.

Creating "temporary" patches

Creating a patch for our own PRs (trusted)

We branch off of distribution and add the URL of our PR to the patches file and create a PR against the distribution branch on xing/act. This PR will try to apply all patches and run the tests. Once it succeeds, we can merge it so that the patches file on distribution contains all required patches.

In case merge conflicts arise, restart and follow the instructions for untrusted PRs.

Creating a patch for other PRs (untrusted)

Important to note here: We need to thoroughly review the code that we merge in here, because it gets built automatically and is then being used in the act-app.

In order to create a patch for untrusted PRs we need to branch off of patched-master and squash merge the changes into our newly created branch. All potential conflicts need to be resolved, so that the resulting patch can apply cleanly.

Next we need to push the changes to xing/act and create a patch using the compare URL with the start/end commit SHAs. Example: https://github.com/xing/act/compare/<patched-master-sha>...<our-branch-sha>.patch

This patch URL can now be added to the patches file as described for trusted PRs.

Since we are "pinning" the PR changes to commit SHAs that exist in xing/act we need to repeat the above process if the upstream PR gets updated.