Hi, I am using Shopify Online Store 2.0 with Github integration. I am wanting to use one master branch that will be used across multiple stores. All the stores will be identical with small changes being made with liquid conditions. This all works fine apart from the theme settings config files. I …

@RossellaF The solution I ended up coming up with is having all our Stores connect to the same repository. Our branching strategy is having a different live branch for each site that will serve as the live theme. For my specific use case, the majority of the code would be identical apart from the …

We are using the Github integration for our live themes. Each live theme has it’s own Github branch (live/store-name). We do the development work on another branch and push to a branch called “Release”. The Github workflow triggers when something is pushed to the “Release” branch. From there, that w…

That’s really clever, thanks for sharing this with me!

Hey Matthew, That sounds like a great set up. Is there any chance you could share your Github workflows yml code? It would be a great help. Cheers

Hi, See the public repo with the workflow yml code: https://github.com/matthewgelder/DawnTest Note that this hasn’t actually being used in production yet as it’s experimental and can be heavily optimised I’m sure! Thanks, Matt

Struggling with this solution. I’m pretty novice with GitHub so please correct me if I’m wrong with any of this: GitHub: main pushing theme files to several live branches using a workflow with paths-ignore excluding config and templates directories. The issue (I think!), is that a directory (e.g. …

You’re right. I’ve gone down this road to try to make it work but ran into the same issue with this method that you described.

have you found a solution for this?

Nope. No solution. Right now, I’m having to maintain separate repos for each storefront, which is a PITA…

I did end up with a pretty good solution which has been working so far. It takes a bit of setup and uses github actions. This is just a rundown of what it involves.. Create a main repository, along with another repository for each storefront. Each repository will start out identical to one another…

I have had all the struggles outlined in this entire thread. Could you share a repo with your solution? It would be lovely to be able to dig into and understand.

How can I use one Github branch for multiple identical Shopify stores?

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lpscleay March 4, 2024, 9:59am 21

Brilliant. It’s working for you then? — I’ll be looking deeper asap…

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How can I use one Github branch for multiple identical Shopify stores?

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