[Request]: Extend Updating the service

[JanKinable]

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Tell us about your request The service update is only allowed to update service name and description. It would be nice to also have some other options to be adapted to prevent a (slow) delete of the service and re-creation.

Tell us about the problem you're trying to solve. What are you trying to do, and why is it hard? In my case, I entered the wrong branch name (main instead of master) causing the pipeline to fail. Allowing to change this value could have prevented the complete removal of the service.

Are you currently working around this issue? There is no other solution than either to adjust the pipeline (but then you miss the point of using proton a bit) or to remove the service completely so everything gets cleaned up.

Additional context I suspect there are some more service configuration fields that don't impact the base of the service.

[aadeshrao]

This indeed can be so helpful and with every update if we could get change-sets created, this could a savior!

[rafavallina]

Hi @JanKinable it's been quite a bit since this request came in and we have been silently toiling away on some of these changes. Although this is not equally good, we have made a small change to the console UX that can at least help minimize the risk of this particular error happening (typos or small mistakes when entering the pipeline information). We now display a list of repos and branches in the console as a dropdown:

This doesn't solve the issue, but it's an initial step

@aadeshrao We also want to support change-sets and have an internal document for it. We will be working on this in 2022!