No TEMPLATE branch

[ewels]

Hello!

I just pushed a new release of nf-core/tools with the template, but kmermaid failed to sync because it doesn't have a TEMPLATE branch (see nf-core/tools#709 (comment)).

Normally this branch is created when the pipeline repo is "vanilla" with no modifications from the nf-core/tools template. The TEMPLATE branch needs to have a common history with a commit in the main branch which has this state.

It looks like this pipeline wasn't created with nf-core create, so this is a little trickier. The pipeline has to have a manual merge. This process is described in https://nf-co.re/developers/sync#manual-synchronisation

Once you've done this once, all future automated PRs should work fine.

Shout if you have any problems!

Phil

[pranathivemuri]

https://github.com/nf-core/kmermaid/tree/TEMPLATE - Olga and I made a branch now

[ewels]

Ok nice! However I'm afraid that this isn't resolved yet - just creating an orphan TEMPLATE branch is not enough. You need to go on to do the merge into your main code branches (i.e. dev) with the --allow-unrelated-histories as described here: https://nf-co.re/developers/sync#merge-template-into-main-branches

Currently the TEMPLATE branch doesn't share any git history with dev, so no pull-requests or automation can use it:

Once you have done one merge as described in the docs above, they will have shared history and everything will (should) work smoothly from that point onwards.

I hope this makes sense, shout if you have any questions.

Phil

[pranathivemuri]

#110 - Thanks for the feedback, please let us know if this PR will make the sync automatic from next time!