Auto-update

You can have nix-ci automatically produce PRs with updated flake inputs.

To activate the auto-update mechanism, add auto-update = true; to the nix-ci output of your flake:

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.

# SuiteConfiguration
auto-update: # optional
  # Auto-update configuration
  # 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>
  ]