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sync-production

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Sync the main branch into production via the GitHub merges API. Pre-checks for merge conflicts and bails out with a clear reason if the merge isn't clean. Use when asked to merge main into production, deploy main to production, or sync production.

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How to use this skill

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  1. Open your project in Codex.
  2. Copy the prompt below and paste it into your agent.
  3. Review the proposed files and risks before you approve installation.
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Source SKILL.md: https://github.com/pollinations/pollinations/blob/HEAD/.claude/skills/sync-production/SKILL.md

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Sync Production

Server-side merge of main → production using the GitHub merges API. No local checkout, no working tree changes.

Quick Usage

.claude/skills/sync-production/scripts/sync-production.sh

What It Does

  1. Fetches origin/main and origin/production
  2. Lists the commits that would be merged
  3. Pre-checks for conflicts with git merge-tree (no working tree touched)
  4. If conflicts → stops with the conflicting paths and exits non-zero. Resolve manually, then re-run.
  5. If clean → calls POST /repos/pollinations/pollinations/merges to create the merge commit on production server-side

Exit Codes

  • 0 — merge succeeded, or nothing to merge
  • 2 — merge would conflict (paths printed)
  • 3 — GitHub merges API rejected the request (branch protection, missing branches, etc.)

On Conflict

The skill stops and reports the conflicting files. Don't try to force it — surface the reason in chat and resolve manually:

git checkout production && git pull
git merge main           # resolve conflicts in editor
git push origin production

Overrides

SYNC_REPO=owner/repo SYNC_BASE=staging SYNC_HEAD=main \
  .claude/skills/sync-production/scripts/sync-production.sh

Notes

  • Run from repo root
  • Requires gh (authenticated, push access to production) and jq
  • Branch protection on production that requires PRs will cause exit code 3 — open a PR manually with gh pr create --base production --head main in that case