[YETUS-1059] Github Status Recovery Tool

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.13.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.13.0
• Component/s: Precommit

Release Note

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The new `github-status-recovery` program is a way to feed GitHub results from an already executed precommit run. It requires a GitHub App token to populate the GitHub Checks and GitHub Statuses data.

• Flags: Important
• Assignee: Allen Wittenauer
• Reporter: Allen Wittenauer
• Created: 28/Oct/20 16:28
• Updated: 03/Nov/20 14:04
• Resolved: 02/Nov/20 14:21

Description

Github insists that app tokens are only good for an hour which makes them useless for incredibly large projects or incredibly broken repositories. On systems that don't have a way to programmatically get a new token (looking at you, Jenkins), test-patch fails to write statuses.

Issue Links

• contains: YETUS-1002 GitHub Checks Annotations: switch line comments out to annotations
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #184