How to fork when self-hosting?

[markstos]

Yes, it looks like you’ve got a Github Actions workflow that supports custom branches and you also have a custom branch.

I work with Github Actions a lot at work and it can be a tool that can be complex to work with at times.

Here I described a lower-tech way to maintain a fork that might be a good fit if you have a small number of changes:

Is there any way we can modify the cookie name for "ghost-members-ssr"

Are you familiar with creating patch files? You could do something like this: Before you patch the file, create a .bak of the unmodified version. Let’s say now you have file.js.bak and file.js. Generate a patch file: diff -u file.js.bak file.js>my-changes.patch. Except, run this command at the root of the project. Create a small script which wraps ghost update and then applies your patch: #!/bin/sh ghost update patch -p1 <my-changes.patch Now each time you upgrade Ghost, your patch will be r…