📅 5/13 @ 1pm PT - Slash commands & rebasing pull requests with @davidguttman

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💁🏻 Slash commands & rebasing pull requests
📅 Thursday, May 13th, 2021
🕐 1pm US Pacific Time (in your timezone)
🎙️ with @davidguttman
🏷️ Actions

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Slash commands & rebasing pull request

Is there something that will easily rebase a PR against main? I think dependabot can do this if you tag it on its PRs

— @davidguttman on twitter

This is a follow up to the idea posted at #2.

What we want to try to achive in this show is to use a slash command /rebase in a pull request comment to trigger a rebase, powered by GitHub Actions.

Basically what we want to build is https://github.com/marketplace/actions/automatic-rebase, but with @octokit, and we want to separate the slash commands from the actual rebase.

Outline

@davidguttman will join after around 30 minutes. So I'll spend the first 30 minutes looking at existing solutions, trying them out and going through their code. Once David joins, we will implement a /rebase slash command powered pull request rebase solution that fits his needs.

• Research of existing solutions
• Once David joins: introducion
• Slash commands
  • Create a hello world slash command
• Rebase pull request using GitHub Action

Recording

Shownotes

• js.la - the Los Angeles JavaScript meeting that David is hosting
• Junior to Senior - A podcast show by David
• We looked through these actions:
  • https://github.com/marketplace/actions/slash-commands
  • https://github.com/marketplace/actions/slash-command-dispatch
  • https://github.com/marketplace/actions/automatic-rebase (bash)
  • https://github.com/marketplace/actions/rebase-prs (JS)
• GitHub Action to send any GitHub REST API request: https://github.com/octokit/request-action/. We used it to create a comment in case the rebase failed
• @xt0rted found an issue about @dependabot and how they do rebases, as we talked with David about better rebasing at the end of the show. Thank you!

Preparation

• Review existing solutions
  • https://github.com/marketplace/actions/slash-commands
  • https://github.com/marketplace/actions/slash-command-dispatch
  • https://github.com/marketplace/actions/automatic-rebase (bash)
  • https://github.com/marketplace/actions/rebase-prs (JS)

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YouTube video is now up: https://youtu.be/d6Dyc8xag8Q

And with that, the show is a wrap! Thanks @davidguttman, and everyone watching. Feel free to add more questions in this thread