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have a fork repo mode

Open jstrachan opened this issue 7 years ago • 0 comments

it might be nice to run updatebot on any github repos without needing write access. Right now UpdateBot generates PRs by creating a temporary branch on each downstream project.

A nicer approach would be to fork the repos into the UpdateBot user's account, generating the temporary branch there and using that for the PR - which would mean the github UpdateBot user credentials would not need any permissions other than regular github roles on its own repos/forks

jstrachan avatar Sep 25 '17 12:09 jstrachan