Auto-update

You can have NixCI automatically produce PRs with updated flake inputs.

To activate the auto-update mechanism, add a auto-update section to your configuration:

{
  nix-ci = {
    auto-update = true;
  };
}

You will also need to create a GitHub access token and configure it as a secret on nix-ci with name: GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN

Now Nix-ci will schedule regular update runs.

In these update runs, it will try to run nix flake update on a repository, commit the result, and make a PR.

nix-ci: # optional
  auto-update: # optional
    # Whether to schedule 'nix flake update' jobs
    # any of
    [ <boolean>
    , # AutoUpdateConfiguration
      enable: # required
        # Enable auto-update jobs
        # or null
        <boolean>
      base: # optional
        # Base branch to base PRs off
        <string>
      user: # optional
        # Github user who's the owner of the access token
        <string>
    ]