RFR: 1355: Mirror bot needs branch selection based on patterns

[erik.joelsson at oracle.com]

I didn't receive it either, but it's in the mail archive: 
https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/skara-dev/2022-August/006327.html

/Erik

On 8/19/22 4:07 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> There never was a "Integrated: ..." mail about this, even though it 
> was pushed 17 hours ago. Are the bots stuck?
>
> /Magnus
>
> On 2022-08-15 22:19, Erik Joelsson wrote:
>> This patch makes it possible to configure mirrored branches with 
>> regex patterns. For what I think is improved readability, I made it 
>> possible to supply the patterns as an array of strings, so we can 
>> have multiple separate patterns. It's still possible to define 
>> "branches" as a comma separated list, for backwards compatibility.
>>
>> When deploying this change, I will need to delete the existing local 
>> repos used for mirroring on the bot runner machine, because the 
>> method by which repos are cloned is changing (for repos that do not 
>> just mirror "everything"). Going forward, I think it's good to always 
>> clone all repos the same way, regardless of configuration.
>>
>> There is another behavioral change, where I'm adding `--force` when 
>> pushing branches with `includeTags`. It happens a bit too often that 
>> a repo maintainer changes tags, which currently causes error for any 
>> mirroring job because we aren't force pushing tags. I don't think we 
>> ever want to not force update when mirroring repos.
>>
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>>
>> Commit messages:
>>   - SKARA-1355
>>
>> Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/skara/pull/1358/files
>>   Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=skara&pr=1358&range=00
>>    Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/SKARA-1355
>>    Stats: 116 lines in 4 files changed: 88 ins; 7 del; 21 mod
>>    Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/skara/pull/1358.diff
>>    Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/skara 
>> pull/1358/head:pull/1358
>>
>> PR: https://git.openjdk.org/skara/pull/1358