[Feat]: Add possibity to change the branch of the source repo

[msiebeneicher]

Describe the feature

We would like to change the branch of the source repository to sync from

Use Case

We use a version branch v1 in our source (template) repo to be able to handle breaking changes there. Now we figured out that we can only merge the main source branch in the action.

https://github.com/AndreasAugustin/actions-template-sync/blob/main/src/sync_template.sh#L275

Proposed Solution

We use a dirty workaround and "misuse" the existing git_remote_pull_params parameter : v1 --allow-unrelated-histories --squash --strategy=recursiv e -X theirs

actions-template-sync/src/sync_template.sh

Line 59 in bcb9441

GIT_REMOTE_PULL_PARAMS="${GIT_REMOTE_PULL_PARAMS:---allow-unrelated-histories --squash --strategy=recursive -X theirs}"

Better would be to add a new optional parameter like source_branch (default '') which can be used like eval "git pull ${source_repo} ${source_branch} --tags ${git_remote_pull_params}" || pull_has_issues=true

https://github.com/AndreasAugustin/actions-template-sync/blob/main/src/sync_template.sh#L275

Acknowledgements

• I may be able to implement this feature request

[AndreasAugustin]

Hi @msiebeneicher and thanks a lot for the suggestion.
Actually the idea behind the git_remote_pull_params are also to include possible branches there.
But ok out of convenience reasons I think it makes sense.