The purpose of this project this to show how to script the git commands needed to replace the contents of a release branch with the contents of a main or master branch. This can be used to trigger the deployment of
a release to production or UAT.
Assuming that the name of your main branch is main, execute the following commands to replace the contents of a release branch with the contents of a main branch:
git checkout main
git branch release
git merge --allow-unrelated-histories --strategy=ours release
git checkout release
git merge main
git push --force origin releaseThe push command requires a GitHub username with push access to the repository and a personal access token (if you don't have one or can't
remember what it is, go to your GitHub tokens to create a new one). These commands can be found in the executable bash script release.sh in the top level of this project repo.
To replace release with main and trigger a new CI/CD pipeline, enter the following at the command line:
% ./release.sh