Custom label for copybara state

[Łukasz Dywicki]

Hi all,

I am a random folk who got interested in copybara after seeing various approaches towards replication/synchronization of git repositories. So far I've seen forked repos with various scripts. Copybara gives a hope for a more structured (and portable) way.

One of approaches I've used in past with my colleagues involved a bash script which attempted to first generate a patch, then do basic find&replace and then apply it. Script is public (https://github.com/opensmarthouse/opensmarthouse-core/blob/master/patch.sh) and it does handle primary relocations. In order to retain status we used custom commit label called 'X-Backport-Id'. After a look at copybara I found that it assumes 'GitOrigin-RevId'. I made succesful patch to customize that, yet I am not sure what's contributor's view on such change. I am able to provide PR and go over review process if needed.

Is there a interest and will to get another option for copybara to work with a custom commit label?

Best,

Łukasz

[Chris Campos]

You can try the experimental_custom_rev_id setting in core.workflow, which lets you customize this. 

Please take a look at the docs here: https://github.com/google/copybara/blob/master/docs/reference.md#coreworkflow

Cheers,

Chris

[Łukasz Dywicki]

Hello Chris,

Thank you for hint. I think I have tried it, but it didn't go through all places. I will check it again and try to indicate which case was missed.

Best,

Łukasz