Auto-Update Repositories

[ghost]

Because we have a lot of repos, we should have the possibility to auto-update the repos; therefore we need the following:

• new Generator - auto-update:

  • parameters:
    • gets a list of repo urls that should be updated; we need a token to make the prs - perhaps in a file
    • gets a pr name (prName)
    • gets the assignees for this pr
  • get the generator version (from package.json)
  • for each repo do the following:
  • checkout repo in develop branch
  • call utils/autoUpdate with the parameter: baseType, generatorVersion, generatorDirectory
  • if there are any changes made (git status):
    • make a pr with the prName with the given assignees and push it to GitHub

• utils/autoUpdate(baseType, generatorVersion, generatorDirectory)

  • get version of local generator version from .yo-rc.json file (localVersion)
  • if there is no version field in the .yo-rc.json (localVersion = generatorVersion - 1)
  • while (localVersion < generatorVersion):
  • increment localVersion
  • if there is a file in the generatorDirectory with the name update-<localVersion>.js
    • execute the update<localVersion>.js file with the following parameters: repoDirectory (root), baseType
  • write localVersion to .yo-rc.json

[oltionchampari]

The one issue that arises from having one update file per generator version is that you can execute the update only once per generator release which is rather restricting.

• A suggestion would be to have one file per generator version which contains steps. In the repo is saved apart from the generator version the step number. (con: could be error prone since the developer might add the wrong step id to a step) Maybe having the steps in an array and execute them depending on the index (con: you can then only append to the steps, you cannot insert freely in any index)

• Maybe have a file for each update would be simpler (con: still error prone, perhaps leaving the update template generation to the generator itself makes it less error prone)