The Git to Windmill direction of git sync now works fully in-app, making the documented GitHub Actions optional. Enable 'Automatically deploy changes from Git' on a repository and new commits to the tracked branch deploy into the workspace, instantly via webhooks for GitHub App repositories (with polling as a safety net) or by polling about every minute for token repositories. Windmill can also open pull requests for promotion and fork deploy branches, post a 'Windmill diff' check and managed comment on pull requests showing what merging would deploy, post a deploy status check on synced commits, and automatically deploy fork branch changes into fork workspaces from a single parent-level toggle.
New features
- Per-repository 'Automatically deploy changes from Git' toggle: new commits on the tracked branch deploy into the workspace, no CI/CD pipeline needed.
- GitHub App repositories (managed and GHES self-managed) sync instantly via an HMAC-verified webhook that Windmill registers itself; polling stays on as a safety net.
- Token-based repositories sync via polling, checking the tracked branch about every minute; commits made by Windmill ([WM] prefix) are skipped to prevent loops.
- In-app pull request creation: 'Open a pull request for each deploy branch' on promotion repositories and 'Open a pull request when an item is deployed in a fork' on the parent sync repository, replacing the gh pr create GitHub Actions.
- Pull requests targeting the tracked branch get a 'Windmill diff' check run and a managed comment showing what merging would deploy, updated on each push.
- Tracked-branch deploys post a 'Windmill' check run on the commit that flips from 'Deploying…' to 'Deployed N changes'.
- Parent-level 'Automatically sync forks with git branches' toggle deploys changes on each fork's wm-fork/** branch into the matching fork workspace, replacing the push-on-merge-to-forks action.