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+# Github synchronization scripts
+
+This tool aims to help synchronizing changes from mozilla-central to Github on pushes.
+This is useful for Gecko sub-projects that have Github mirrors, like `gfx/wr` linking to `https://github.com/servo/webrender`.
+Originally, the tools were developed in `https://github.com/staktrace/wrupdater`,
+then got moved under `gfx/wr/ci-scripts/wrupdater`,
+and finally migrated here while also abstracting away from WebRender specifically.
+
+The main entry point is the `sync-to-github.sh` script that is called with the following arguments:
+  1. name of the project, matching the repository under `https://github.com/moz-gfx` user (e.g. `webrender`)
+  2. relative folder in mozilla-central, which is the upstream for the changes (e.g. `gfx/wr`)
+  3. downstream repository specified as "organization/project-name" (e.g. `servo/webrender`)
+  4. name to call for auto-approving the pull request (e.g. `bors` or `@bors-servo`)
+
+It creates a staging directory at `~/.ghsync` if one doesn't already exist,
+and clones the the downstream repo into it.
+The script also requires the `GECKO_PATH` environment variable
+to point to a mercurial clone of `mozilla-central`, and access to the
+taskcluster secrets service to get a Github API token.
+
+The `sync-to-github.sh` script does some setup steps but the bulk of the actual work
+is done by the `converter.py` script. This script scans the mercurial
+repository for new changes to the relative folder in m-c,
+and adds commits to the git repository corresponding to those changes.
+There are some details in the implementation that make it more robust
+than simply exporting patches and attempting to reapply them;
+in particular it builds a commit tree structure that mirrors what is found in
+the `mozilla-central` repository with respect to branches and merges.
+So if conflicting changes land on autoland and inbound, and then get
+merged, the git repository commits will have the same structure with
+a fork/merge in the commit history. This was discovered to be
+necessary after a previous version ran into multiple cases where
+the simple patch approach didn't really work.
+
+One of the actions the `converter.py` takes is to find the last sync point
+between Github and mozilla-central. This is done based on the following markers:
+  - commit message containing the string "[ghsync] From https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/xxx"
+  - commit message containing the string "[wrupdater] From https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/xxx"
+  - commit with tag "mozilla-xxx"
+(where xxx is always a mozilla-central hg revision identifier).
+
+Once the converter is done converting, the `sync-to-github.sh` script
+finishes the process by pushing the new commits to the `github-sync` branch
+of the `https://github.com/moz-gfx/<project-name>` repository,
+and generating a pull request against the downstream repository. It also
+leaves a comment on the PR that triggers testing and automatic merge of the PR.
+If there is already a pull request (perhaps from a previous run) the
+pre-existing PR is force-updated instead. This allows for graceful
+handling of scenarios where the PR failed to get merged (e.g. due to
+CI failures on the Github side).
+
+The script is intended to by run by taskcluster for any changes that
+touch the relative folder that land on `mozilla-central`. This may mean
+that multiple instances of this script run concurrently, or even out
+of order (i.e. the task for an older m-c push runs after the task for
+a newer m-c push). The script was written with these possibilities in
+mind and should be able to eventually recover from any such scenario
+automatically (although it may take additional changes to mozilla-central
+for such recovery to occur). That being said, the number of pathological
+scenarios here is quite large and they were not really tested.
+
+## Ownership and access
+
+When this tool is run in Firefox CI, it needs to have push permissions to
+the `moz-gfx` github user's account. It gets this permission via a secret token
+stored in the Firefox CI taskcluster secrets service. If you need to update
+the token, you need to find somebody who is a member of the
+[webrender-ci access group](https://people.mozilla.org/a/webrender-ci/). The
+Google Drive associated with that access group has additional documentation
+on the `moz-gfx` github user and the secret token.
+
+## Debugging
+
+To debug the converter.py script, you need to have a hg checkout of
+mozilla-central, let's assume it's at $MOZILLA. First create a virtualenv
+with the right dependencies installed:
+
+```
+mkdir -p $HOME/.ghsync
+virtualenv --python=python3 $HOME/.ghsync/venv
+source $HOME/.ghsync/venv/bin/activate
+pip3 install -r $MOZILLA/taskcluster/docker/github-sync/requirements.txt
+```
+
+Also create a checkout of the downstream github repo and set up a `github-sync`
+branch to the point where you want port commits to. For example, for WebRender
+you'd do:
+
+```
+cd $HOME/.ghsync
+git clone https://github.com/servo/webrender
+cd webrender
+git checkout -b github-sync master
+```
+
+(You can set the github-sync branch to a past revision if you want to replicate
+a failure that already got committed).
+
+Then run the converter from your hg checkout:
+
+```
+cd $MOZILLA
+tools/github-sync/converter.py $HOME/.ghsync/webrender gfx/wr
+```
+
+You can set the DEBUG variable in the script to True to get more output.