Visirion Bot

Proposed Solution

This app is used for automated merge, rebase, squashing, fast forwarding of pull requests on version control systems, like Github.
It acts as a chatbot to make it easy for new developers to manage large codebases, by enabling them to use basic commands on the Github comments section.

Workflow

• Fork the original repository of the organisation or user.
  
• Checkout to some branch.
  
• Push to your branch.
  
• Compare and send pull request.
  
• Once the maintainer reviews the pull request he will trigger the bot as:
  @visirionrebase
  
• Wait for visirion to perform rebase, once done all the changes will be in sync with master.

How to Set up (Only for maintainers)

• Clone and download the repository:
  git clone https://github.com/jay24rajput/Vision-Bot.git
  
• Install dependencies:
  pip3 install -r requirements.txt --user
  
• Run the server:
  python3 manage.py runserver
  
• Publish the localhost as:
  ngrok http -host-header=rewrite localhost:8000
  
• Create webhooks for your repository:
  Webhooks for github
• Enter the http address from the ngrok:
  eg: http://6712e41e.ngrok.io
  
• Generate and Enter the secret key
  

$ python manage.py shell
   from django.utils.crypto import get_random_string
   get_random_string(50)

• Update webhook and deliver the request and check the response.

Perfoming Rebase

When not doing a fast forward merge, your git history looks like this:

Chaos. This makes it pretty difficult to figure out what code is where and when and how it got there. When you rebase and only do fast forward merges, you get a git history that looks like this:

A nice, clean, straight line. This makes it sooooo much nicer!

This is how the Visirion Bot performs Rebasing

Future Scope

• Can be integrated into a github app by providing the required urls.
• We can integrate the project with Chatter Bot APIS to add more functionality to Visirion
• Different Scenarios for merge conflicts, force pushes, etc. can also be incorporated.

Contributors

• Jay Rajput: jay24rajput
• Sladyn Nunes: sladyn98
• Akhil varyani: av06
• Manoj Ochaney: MANOJ-OCHANEY