The Mergify Blog

A Merge Queue on Steroids

In every engineering team, developers want to see their "ready to merge" work landing as soon as possible into their source code repository. Nobody wants to wait, and this directly impacts the velocity of the team. The worst part of the merging process would be to have to revert a

The 7 Best CI/CD Tools in 2021

CI/CD tools can take your team to the next level of automated efficiency, effectively eliminating the need to manually test and review new features before they are merged with your main codebase and delivered to production environments. However, choosing the best option for your team takes careful planning. Below,

Features

Introducing Mergify API

Today, we are pleased to announce the general availability of the Mergify API. This has been one of our focuses over the last months, as it has been one of the most requested features from our beloved users. We are thrilled to release it and are eager to add more

Security

How to Deal with the Abuse of your Service?

As Mergify keeps growing, we keep encountering new issues. A few weeks ago, we explained how we had to adapt to our traffic increase and handling close to 1M events per day. With growth comes its share of abusive accounts. In the same fashion that our workload grew, the number

Features

New draft and undraft actions

Pull requests are an essential part of the GitHub workflow. While they are mainly used as a way to merge your code into the base branch, it is not their only purpose. What if you wanted to create a prototype of a feature you would like to implement, just to

Transition to mergify.com

Sometimes, you don't need a long blog post. 🤷 This is a public statement to announce that we are transitioning our domain name from mergify.io to mergify.com over the upcoming months. This migration will be transparent to our users. That's all folks. You've been warned.

GitHub

GitHub announces Pull Request Merge Queue

When you work for so long on the GitHub platform, you see signs nobody can see. It turns out we spotted weeks ago that GitHub was working on its own implementation of merge queues. We were thrilled to see their announcement last week on their roadmap. Merge queues are finally

Startup

Launching our Startup Program

Today, Mergify is proud to announce its Startup Program, aiming to help every startup scale its business and become more prominent. Why are we launching a Startup Program?At Mergify, we know what it is to be a startup. We know how hard it is to find a place for

GitHub Branch Protection: What It Is and Why It Matters

GitHub offers a great deal of flexibility for more collaborative development among more widely distributed teams. Now, anyone can work together on a single codebase without losing track of other contributors’ progress in relation to their own. However, this flexibility can actually prove to be more of a problem than

Changelog

Mergify Changelog 2021Q3

Time flies, and this is the last update before we close the 2021 year. That's exciting! This quarter was no exception to the rule, and Mergify continued to grow in its number of users, repositories, and automated pull requests. We're thrilled to see more and more users leveraging our engine

GitHub

Understanding the GitHub Pull Request Workflow

GitHub allows developers around the world to streamline their development pipelines and maintain a solid history of their projects even while collaborating with many other individuals and teams. However, Git can only take a team so far; it’s a tool that can be used effectively or ineffectively, depending on

Features

Strict Mode Deprecation

When Mergify started to automate pull request merges, users expressed rapidly the need for having a way to keep their pull requests updated. We soon introduced the strict mode for the merge action, offering pull request merge serialization. This was our first, very basic, merge queue. Later, Mergify introduced the

GitHub

How to solve Linus Torvalds' issues about GitHub

While Linus Torvalds is well-known for Linux, he's also reputed for not having his tongue in his pocket. He is often complaining loudly about what he thinks is wrong or damageable to the industry. As the creator of Git 15 years ago, it's interesting to hear what he recently stated

GitHub

Handling 780k GitHub events per day

A year ago, we wrote about our workload issues and how we were handling 300k GitHub events per day. Our main challenge was avoiding GitHub rate limit and quota system while delivering service with low latency and high throughput. Earlier this year we noticed more and more issues handling our

Git

What Is a Git Merge Fast Forward?

A Git fast forward is an extremely useful and efficient mechanism for harmonizing your project's main branch with changes introduced in a given feature branch. Git makes ample use of fast-forwarding merges behind the scenes, speeding up your development workflow in the process. Fast-forward merges can help keep your commit

GitHub

The Best GitHub Productivity Tools

To get the most out of GitHub, it helps to choose the right tools. Developer productivity tools abound, but not all of them are worth adopting to improve your workflow. You can use the best productivity tools for programmers to enhance almost any part of your development process, including getting

Open-Source

The Next Decade of Continuous Integration

I remember officially switching my professional career from being a Linux system administrator to a Python software engineer. It was ten years ago when I decided that rebooting servers was dull. Watching the software engineering team working next to me, seeing them doing git commit -a -m 'friday night commit'

Features

Behind the scene of time-based conditions

Last month, we announced a new set of conditions for Mergify rules based on time. You can now use a time and date and compare pull request attributes to dates and times. We had the idea for this feature since the beginning of Mergify, but we delayed it for a

Git

How to Resolve a Merge Conflict?

GitHub makes collaborating with many different people on a single piece of code or software much easier by managing the details involved in version control alongside your project's evolving history. This makes it especially useful for comparing code changes as they come in and sorting out differences between code submissions

Open-Source

Which Open Source License Should You Use for GitHub Project?

Choosing a distribution license for the software you publish on GitHub can seem confusing at first. After all, there are quite literally hundreds of licenses to choose from, all of which are suitable for different purposes and grant users of your code unique rights. For first-time code publishers, it can

Changelog

Mergify Changelog 2021Q2

The second quarter of 2021 has finished. As usual, we got pretty busy and shipped a lot of new features. This quarter has been marked by a massive increase in our number of users and, therefore, our workload. We spent quite some time preparing for significant improvements in our processing

Git

Code Review Best Practices

Adopting the right code review best practices can drastically speed up your review process while also improving the quality of your reviews. Often enough, code reviews can become areas of contention among members of your team, prompting them to become defensive about work they’ve done or changes they may

Features

Announcing Time-based Conditions

Today, we're happy to announce the general availability of one of our most awaited features. Expressing conditions to act upon is the core of Mergify rules. While many dimensions are exposed through our configuration file and allow us to filter on many pull request attributes, one important was missing. Time.

GitHub

How to Pick your GitHub Merge Methods

GitHub merge methods can be tough to choose correctly. Implementing the wrong merge method on your project's main branch can detract from your team's ability to follow along and contribute. In other words, using the wrong merge method for the occasion defeats the entire purpose of Git—namely, seamless collaboration

Features

Announcing Boolean Operators in Conditions

Over the years, Mergify users wish they could be more expressive in the way they write their pull request rules. As those rules are a combination of conditions, being able to use or and and operators inside those expressions is a must-have. We are pleased to announce that this long-awaited