The Mergify Blog

How to Compare Two Branches in GitHub

GitHub offers a ton of value through its git-complementing feature set. In fact, without the use of GitHub, it’s likely that quite a lot of distributed development teams would struggle to meet modern demands and make deadlines on a regular basis. However, between Git and GitHub, there are numerous

Changelog

Mergify Changelog 2021Q4

The last quarter of the year is now wrapped up, and it's time to wish everyone a happy new year. We want to start this changelog edition by looking back to a year ago. Our number of users doubled over the year, which came with its pack of challenges. We

Git

How to Undo a Merge in Git

Merging is essential to every developer's workflow in Git. Without merging, your codebase would wither as contributors come up empty-handed when it comes time to mix their work in with what has already been published. Merging makes this all possible. But merging can also make for a mean headache if

Open-Source

They use Mergify: PyTorch Lightning

At Mergify, we want to show you that companies have different use of our software. Any workflow isn't the same! So for the very first time, we decided to launch a post series called #TheyUseMergify. Enjoy this first one 😁 They use Mergify: PyTorch Lightning Every day, major projects use Mergify

GitHub

How to Push to GitHub: A Short Guide

GitHub has done quite a lot for the developer community over the years, facilitating the kind of collaboration on code that modern dev projects simply could not survive without. GitHub ships tens of thousands of improvements per year to help keep dev teams all over the world from waking up

Open-Source

How NOT to use Redis

It's not a secret that we are fans of Redis. We've been leveraging it since day one at Mergify to store various volatile data. It's fast, robust, and easily scalable. Six months ago, we introduced speculative checks support for our merge queue. We chose a simple data structure to store

Use Case

Why your team size is irrelevant

When you work on software helping other software engineers, you end up having an excellent understanding of your craft. At Mergify, we talk to a dozen engineering teams every month, putting us in a pretty good position to understand their problems. This also gives us an average picture of what

Changelog

Announcing Mergify's SOC 2 Type II Certification

As security is everyone's priority at Mergify, we are thrilled to announce that Mergify is now SOC 2 Type II certified. This is a huge milestone for the team and a continuity in our commitment to maintaining a high level of trust with our partners, users, and customers. We have

Features

Speculative Checks and Batch: Under the Hood

If this title does not ring a bell, you might need to read first what a merge queue is, what problem speculative checks solve, and how mixing speculative checks and batching can save you a lot of time. Go ahead. We'll wait. Now that you have an idea of what

Use Case

4 CI/CD Best Practices

Continuous integration, delivery, and deployment (CI/CD) offer software development teams a holistic means of meeting more milestones in less time. This is generally accomplished by simplifying complex and tedious, yet overwhelmingly redundant tasks through targeted automation. Once simplified, continuous integration, delivery, and deployment processes work to support development initiatives

Features

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

GitHub

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

Changelog

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