Functionality for Detecting Creation of 'release/*' branch

[michaelpitts]

Hello!! this is an awesome project and it's great to have a smart workaround for the short comings of AWS Codepipeline.

Feel free to close this issue if the code already supports this workflow, but I am looking for something specific:
My company has decided on Gitflow, which requires the creation of 'release candidate' branches when code from 'develop' is deemed ready for release. Currently, I have to hardcode the release candidate branches name into our pipelines, which isn't ideal and will not scale well. I was hoping that AWS Codepipeline would support a wildcard feature where I can target for any branch that starts with 'release/', but of course, AWS doesn't support this.
Is it possible to implement a feature into this that looks for any new branch created that matches a certain regex pattern? (as opposed to any new PRs)

Thank you!!

[nicolai86]

Per github documentation there is an event emitted when a branch is pushed. In that case you'd need to include this event in main.go.

The basic structure should look like

if payload.Header["X-GitHub-Event"] == "push" {
 // check ref if this is a release/* branch
} else if // existing logic

If you end up implementing this feel free to open a PR to extend this tool :)