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Synchronize a downstream Terraform provider repository with Magic Modules by aligning commit history and verifying parity.

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sync-provider

Note to AI Agents: You MUST read the YAML frontmatter above first. Only read the rest of this file if the description matches your required task. This skill is designed to be completely self-contained and unambiguous for a fresh agent without prior context.

Prerequisites

  • You must be operating relative to the magic-modules and downstream provider repositories.
  • You must have the absolute path to the downstream repository (e.g., terraform-provider-google-beta).
  • You must have verified there are no unsaved or uncommitted changes in the downstream provider directory that would be overwritten by code generation.

Execution Steps

1. Identify Magic Modules Base Commit

Check if the magic-modules repository is a fork or has multiple remotes:

git remote -v

Identify the official googleapis/magic-modules remote (e.g., origin or upstream). If it is ambiguous, ask the user which remote is the canonical upstream.

Then calculate the target base commit:

  • If on main (of the upstream): Use the current commit (HEAD).
  • If on a feature branch: Calculate the merge base where the branch diverged from the canonical main: 
    git merge-base HEAD <canonical-remote>/main

Record the base commit hash and date. This hash will be used to find the matching commit in the downstream repository.

2. Check for Uncommitted Downstream Changes

Before checking out older commits, check if there are local modifications in the downstream repository:

cd <downstream-provider-path>
git status

If changes exist, point them out to the user and ask if they wish to save/stash them. Do not proceed without consent. If consent is given, you can stash or reset them.

3. Find the Matching Downstream Commit

Search for a commit in the downstream repository that corresponds to the Magic Modules base commit hash:

cd <downstream-provider-path>
git log -n 50 --grep="[upstream:<MM-hash>]"

If not found, search origin/main (in case your local main is behind):

git log -n 50 --grep="[upstream:<MM-hash>]" origin/main

If found, pull your main or checkout the specific commit. If not found, try history traversal before falling back to date-based matching.

Fallback: History Traversal (Recommended)

If the exact base hash is not found, it is likely because the specific magic-modules commit did not generate code changes for this specific provider (resulting in no downstream generation commit).

Walk backwards through the magic-modules commit history from your base commit. For each parent commit:

  1. View previous commit history: git log -n 10 --format="%H %s"
  2. Search for its hash in the downstream: git log --grep="[upstream:<parent-hash>]"
  3. The first commit found is the true synchronization point where the downstream repository diverges or sits.

Fallback: Date-Based Matching

If no commit message contains the hash, find the commit in the downstream repository that is closest to the date/timestamp of the MM base commit:

git log --since="<date-of-base-minus-2-days>" --until="<date-of-base-plus-2-days>"

Select the commit that appears to be the matching nightly or generation commit. If ambiguous, ask the user for clarification.

4. Align Downstream

Checkout the matching commit in the downstream repository:

git checkout <matching-commit-hash>

5. Verify Parity

Return to magic-modules and run code generation to verify that there are no unexpected diffs:

cd <magic-modules-path>
make provider VERSION=<beta|ga> OUTPUT_PATH="<downstream-provider-path>"

Verify the output of git status in the downstream repository. It should be clean or only contain changes from our specific branch.

6. Verification & Handoff

Verify that the make provider command succeeded without unexpected diffs. Return to the workflow that invoked this skill to proceed.