Per project configuration

The config file currently lives in ~/.backport, which is fine, but it would be awesome if we could check-in the config for a project (like the repo location, branches, etc)

[sqren]

Btw. I’m thinking about renaming “versions” to “branches”, since that’s really what they are. Any objections?

[sqren]

@spalger @epixa I ended up with a compromise, so the project config (.backportrc.json) behaves as described in https://github.com/sqren/backport/issues/27#issuecomment-348350190, but can be overridden by the global config (.backport/config.json). By default the global config only contains the required fields (accessToken and username), so most users will never override the project specific settings like labels - I see it as a hidden feature for power users.

There is an open PR https://github.com/sqren/backport/pull/29 and I’ve published a beta version that you can install if you want to try it out: npm install backport@2.1.1-beta

With the beta you can add the following .backportrc.json to the kibana repo:

{
  "upstream": "elastic/kibana",
  "versions": ["6.x", "6.1", "6.0", "5.6", "5.5", "5.4"],

  // optional
  "labels": ["backport"],
  "own": true,
  "multipleCommits": false,
  "multipleVersions": true
}

and simplify your global config ~/.backport/config.json:

{
  "accessToken": "...",
  "username": "..."
}