This GitHub App syncs repository settings defined in .github/settings.yml to GitHub, enabling Pull Requests for repository settings.
This App is internal for the organisatzion 1337z.
This app uses probot-config. This means you can inherit settings from another repo, and only override what you want to change.
Individual settings in the arrays listed under labels, teams (once it is supported) and branches will be merged with the base repo if the name of an element in the array matches the name of an element in the corresponding array in the base repo. A possible future enhancement would be to make that work for the other settings arrays based on username, or title. This is not currently supported.
To further clarify: Inheritance within the Protected Branches plugin allows you to override specific settings per branch. For example, your .github repo may set default protection on the master branch. You can then include master in your branches array, and only override the required_approving_review_count.
Alternatively, you might only have a branch like develop in your branches array, and would still get master protection from your base repo.
WARNING: Note that this app inherently escalates anyone with push permissions to the admin role, since they can push config settings to the master branch, which will be synced. In a future, we may add restrictions to allow changes to the config file to be merged only by specific people/teams, or those with admin access (via a combination of protected branches, required statuses, and branch restrictions). Until then, use caution when merging PRs and adding collaborators.
Until restrictions are added in this app, one way to preserve admin/push permissions is to utilize the GitHub CodeOwners feature to set one or more administrative users as the code owner of the .github/settings.yml file, and turn on "require code owner review" for the master branch. This does have the side effect of requiring code owner review for the entire branch, but helps preserve permission levels.
See docs/deploy.md if you would like to run your own instance of this plugin.
###This is build on top of https://github.com/probot/settings/
https://github.com/probot/settings/ is licensed with: ISC
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