Create a GitHub Actions Workflow to Sync Main to Test Branch

Copies the built-in sync_test_branch.yml workflow template and the corresponding sync-test-branch composite action to the target package's .github/ directory. The workflow triggers on push to main/master and force-pushes the main branch contents onto the test branch.

Safety mechanism: If the test branch contains commits that are not reachable from main (i.e., unmerged work-in-progress), the sync is skipped to avoid overwriting unmerged changes.

This enables convenient isolated debugging: work on the test branch, push experimental changes, and each push to main will reset test to match main (as long as no unmerged work exists on test).

Usage

use_workflow_test_branch(path = NULL, overwrite = FALSE)

Arguments

path

Character. Path to the package root directory. If NULL (the default), uses the current working directory.

overwrite

Logical. If TRUE, overwrite existing workflow and action files. Defaults to FALSE.

Value

Invisibly returns the path to the created workflow file.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
temp <- tempdir()
usethis::create_package(temp)
use_workflow_test_branch(temp)
use_workflow_test_branch(temp, overwrite = TRUE)
} # }