feat: Configurable remote (fix #19)

[cjrh]

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[cjrh]

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• feat: Configurable remote (fix #19) #44 👈
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[cjrh]

Thank you for making this tool ❤️

The vast majority of my repos use the forking model. This means that I usually create branches on my fork, say origin, but create pull requests on an upstream remote, say upstream. I've added settings to enable this workflow. It is opt-in during StackTree configuration.

I created this pull request using this pull request. That's kind of fun to say.

Repo configuration

User is asked whether to use a single remote or two remotes (for the fork model)

Forking model requires two remotes for selection

During submit

During submit there is feedback about the remotes being used

[cjrh]

This is my ./.git/.st_store.toml currently, so you can see the settings:

trunk-name = "main"
pr-remote = "upstream"
push-remote = "origin"

[branches.main]
name = "main"
children = ["cjrh/configurable_remote"]

[branches."cjrh/configurable_remote"]
name = "cjrh/configurable_remote"
parent-oid-cache = "88ae3165958d695b454d8945cafbd9c54057369d"
parent = "main"
children = []

[branches."cjrh/configurable_remote".remote]
pr-number = 44
comment-id = 3168011745

[cjrh]

I got an error trying to make another PR stacked on this one. So I'm looking at that now.

[cjrh]

It turns out my idea cannot work. There are fundamental problems:

You cannot create true stacked PRs across repositories on Github because:

1. Cross-repository PRs can only target branches that exist on the upstream repository
2. Fork branches don't exist on upstream by default
3. GitHub doesn't support cross-repo base branches from forks

So I'll change this PR back to simply allowing the remote to be configurable.

😢