Tutorials
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
Achievements
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
Tutorials
Good commit messages make a big difference in your team's ability to stay on top of changes to your codebase. However, coming up with useful and understandable messages is often easier said than done, especially when you’re hard at work. Luckily, there are a few tricks to
Tutorials
Managing security updates on GitHub can get hectic in a hurry as third-party dependencies develop at their own pace, separate from your project. Leaving vulnerable dependencies unpatched can open your entire application up to otherwise avoidable threats, but manually reviewing and merging such updates can quickly eat up all of
Best Practices
GitHub Actions are a collection of tools that help you streamline your development workflows through automation. These actions are event-driven, meaning they’ll trigger upon certain things happening. There are tons of GitHub Actions you can use—here are some of the best. 1. Checkout Everybody knows about Checkout [https:
Product Features
Do you happen to know the common point between the open-source Node.js and Rust projects, the sporty social network Strava, the e-commerce company Shopify and the ride-hailing company Uber? Their engineering team all rely on a merge queue. Well, if you never heard of such a concept, you might
Best Practices
Last September, GitHub launched GitHub CLI 1.0 and brought GitHub to the terminal. GitHub CLI is GitHub command-line interface. It brings pull requests, issues, and other GitHub concepts to the terminal next to where you are already working with Git and your code — according to its documentation [https://cli.
Best Practices
Once developers have completed work on project features and you’ve approved their pull requests [https://blog.mergify.com/what-is-a-pull-request/], it’s time to merge those requests into the main project repository. When doing so, Git has to find a base commit shared by two or more commits and then
Technical
We all knew it was going to happen anyway. GitHub just pulled the plug and removed Dependabot Preview. Dependabot was absorbed by GitHub 2 years ago now, and it seemed logical to phase out the Preview version of it. More than 30,000 organizations relied on this fabulous tool to
Technical
Consuming API in React sounds straightforward. Fetching data can be resumed by using the `fetch` function and getting back the value. Using this simple approach would be fine if everything always worked as intended. However, fetching data is way more than retrieving some value. You have to deal with unexpected
Best Practices
GitHub is a powerful tool for streamlining project collaboration among development teams. However, you can expand your capabilities even more by adding the right apps and tools to your GitHub repositories. With hundreds of apps available, though, which ones do you choose? Sifting through them all and keeping track of
Changelog
Another quarter passed, and it's now an excellent time to reflect on what changed for Mergify over the last three months. Multiple Queues One of our major projects over the last quarter is introducing the new queue action [https://docs.mergify.com/actions/queue/]. The queue action should