Add a flag for `/packit pull-from-upstream` to include files or commit from the `--with-pr-config`

[LecrisUT]

Description

Example case is in rust2rpm, sometimes we want to make some changes to the rust2rpm.toml and then rerun it with those changed files/manually created patches etc. In this case I would want to run something like

/packit pull-from-upstream --with-pr-config --sync-files

In this case it should also imply that the .packit.yaml file is being synced.

Benefit

Normally I would do this in fbrnch if I am already editing this, but the former does not create PRs. packit would offer an alternative to this workflow, which could improve with side-tag management.

Importance

No response

What is the impacted category (job)?

Fedora release automation

Workaround

• [x] There is an existing workaround that can be used until this feature is implemented.

Participation

• [x] I am willing to submit a pull request for this issue. (Packit team is happy to help!)

[mfocko]

As we discussed on the stand up, it would make sense to either have an option for syncing the files, or even redoing the switch so it would be something like --merge instead of combination of 2 switches, which would be more natural in the terms of expected behavior.

[LecrisUT]

In that case how about

/packit pull-from-upstream --rebase-with-this-pr

Wordy but I think it would best describe what the behavior is meant to be, i.e.

• Either
  • checkout the current PR where the comment was made
  • checkout the target branch, rebase the commits from the current PR
• Do the rest of the pull-from-upstream logic
• Create a new PR