[GRASS-dev] Setting up the Github backport application

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Hi,

we activated the backport bot also for GRASS GIS in the Gihub OSGeo
organization.
As far as I understood from Even's email

https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2019-March/049928.html

the system is fairly straight forward (activate bot, define a new
"backport <branch>" label, set it to a PR).

So I tested it with a trivial README.md change but it didn't
cherry-pick but tried to backport the entire master to release_branch
differences!

Any ideas what's wrong?

thanks
Markus

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On dimanche 26 mai 2019 16:31:04 CEST Markus Neteler wrote:

Hi,

we activated the backport bot also for GRASS GIS in the Gihub OSGeo
organization.
As far as I understood from Even's email

https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2019-March/049928.html

the system is fairly straight forward (activate bot, define a new
"backport <branch>" label, set it to a PR).

So I tested it with a trivial README.md change but it didn't
cherry-pick but tried to backport the entire master to release_branch
differences!

Where did you try ? I can't see any "backport XXXX" label in
https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/labels nor a pull request with the label.

Even

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On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 5:24 PM Even Rouault <even.rouault@spatialys.com> wrote:

On dimanche 26 mai 2019 16:31:04 CEST Markus Neteler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we activated the backport bot also for GRASS GIS in the Gihub OSGeo
> organization.
> As far as I understood from Even's email
>
> https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2019-March/049928.html
>
> the system is fairly straight forward (activate bot, define a new
> "backport <branch>" label, set it to a PR).
>
> So I tested it with a trivial README.md change but it didn't
> cherry-pick but tried to backport the entire master to release_branch
> differences!

Where did you try ? I can't see any "backport XXXX" label in
https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/labels nor a pull request with the label.

Since it did potential damage, I have already removed the labels.

This was the PR I wanted to auto-backport:
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-commit/2019-May/045413.html

and see here (at end of page) the many "backporting[bot] " refs:
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-commit/2019-May/date.html

thanks
Markus