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• Validate target user specified branch https://github.com/sqren/backport/pull/324 https://github.com/sqren/backport/pull/325

8.1.0 changes (https://github.com/sqren/backport/pull/319)

• Replace option ci with interactive
• Add options: publishStatusCommentOnSuccess,publishStatusCommentOnFailure and publishStatusCommentOnAbort
• Rename HandledError to BackportError
• Improvements to tests

Fix formatting of github comment (https://github.com/sqren/backport/pull/317)

New signature of backportRun

const result = await backportRun({
  options: {
    accessToken: '...',
    repoOwner: 'elastic',
    repoName: 'kibana',
    pullNumber: 12
  }
});

Other improvements

• Improved json output when running in CI
• Added exitCodeOnFailure to prevent the process from setting a non-zero exit code on failure
• replace insecure exec with slightly more secure spawn
• Lots of tests

Don’t exit with error if individual backports fail (https://github.com/sqren/backport/pull/316) This limits the usage of process.exit(1) to only be used in cli mode and only for unexpected/critical errors.

What's Changed

• fix: Add filepath to conflict message (https://github.com/sqren/backport/pull/306)
• feature: Infer git config user.email and git config user.name (https://github.com/sqren/backport/pull/307)

• Feature: Output json (instead of text) when running in --ci mode (#300)
• Feature: Add support for merge commits (#303)

Improve clone speed for big repos (https://github.com/sqren/backport/pull/293) When initiating the backport process from an existing repository, the clone process can be sped significantly by cloning the local repository instead of the remote repository. For big repositories this changed the clone time from 15 minutes to less than 1 minute.

Bug fix: Show commits in list regardless of merge method (https://github.com/sqren/backport/pull/297) A bug introduced previously caused some commits to not show up if the resulting pull request was merged or rebased, as opposed to squash merged. With the fix all commits should again be displayed regardless of merge method.

--until and --since flags (https://github.com/sqren/backport/pull/286)

Ability to filter commits by date

backport --all --since "2020-02-03" --until "2020-02-04"

--dir flag (https://github.com/sqren/backport/pull/288)

By default the temporary repo will be checked out in ~/.backport/repositories/{project}. This option allows the user to specify the location of the temporary repository for the project.

--publishStatusComment (https://github.com/sqren/backport/pull/288)

This setting makes it possible to disable posting of status comments on source pull requests

• username is no longer required but instead inferred from accessToken
• upstream has been replaced by repoOwner and repoName
• --all has been changed to a cli-only flag. It now simply sets author=null.

Public API:

• Add getCommits API: Retrieve information about commits and whether they are backported
• Rename run to backportRun

Add support for multiple path properties (https://github.com/sqren/backport/pull/273)

This feature makes it possible to list commits that only touch certain files. This is useful in monorepos where many developers work on different projects within a single repo.

backport --path my/project1 --path my/project2

Or via the config file:

{
  "commitPaths": ["my/project1", "my/project2"]
}

Show hint about missing backports (https://github.com/sqren/backport/pull/276, https://github.com/sqren/backport/pull/282)

Sometimes it is not possible to backport a change cleanly due to conflicts. In many cases the conflicts are caused by missing backports. It is often easier and safer to perform the missing backports than manually resolving the conflict. To help the user do this the backport tool will now suggest what is causing the conflict, and which backports are missing.

Details view (https://github.com/sqren/backport/pull/277)

The new details view shows the usual interactive list view but with a little more info and clickable links, enabling the user to jump straight to existing pull requests.

backport --details

Add --reviewer option (https://github.com/sqren/backport/pull/280)

This option makes it possible to request a review when creating the backport:

backport --reviewer sqren

Add status comment to source pull request (https://github.com/sqren/backport/pull/281)

This will add a comment to the source pull request (the pull request that was backported) to indicate the resulting backport pull requests.

Other changes:

• Update all dependencies and bump to Node 16 (https://github.com/sqren/backport/pull/272)
• Refactoring and improving tests (https://github.com/sqren/backport/pull/274, https://github.com/sqren/backport/pull/278)