cherry-pick-release

name	cherry-pick-release
description	Cherry-pick a merged PR onto a Calico release branch using hack/cherry-pick-pull. Use when the user wants to backport a fix to a release-vX.YY branch or asks about the cherry-pick process.

Cherry-picking to Release Branches

Merge the PR to master first. Cherry-picks are made from the merged commit, so a PR that is still open has nothing to pick.

Then run hack/cherry-pick-pull from the repo root:

SRC_UPSTREAM_REMOTE=origin DST_UPSTREAM_REMOTE=origin FORK_REMOTE=<your-remote> CHERRY_PICK=1 \
  ./hack/cherry-pick-pull origin/release-vX.YY <PR_NUMBER>

FORK_REMOTE is the remote for your personal fork — the script pushes the cherry-pick branch there and opens the PR from it.

Bug fixes that should be backported are marked on the original PR with the cherry-pick-candidate label.