Product Features
Announcement of new products or features developed by Mergify.
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
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 [https://docs.mergify.com/actions/merge/#strict-merge] for the merge action, offering pull request merge serialization. This was our first, very
Behind the scene of time-based conditions
Last month, we announced [https://blog.mergify.com/announcing-time-based-conditions/] 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
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
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
What Is a Merge Queue?
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
Replacing Dependabot Preview auto-merge feature
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
Why You Should Be Using a Merge Bot in GitHub
It can be tedious and frustrating merging so many pull requests when you have a large open-source project and several developers working on it at once. All that merging takes up your valuable time. You have to review code yourself—or assign people to it—and rebase your branches periodically,
Announcing Speculative Merge Queues
Today we're happy to announce the general availability of our new merge queues feature. This unique functionality allows engineering teams to secure their code merge by serializing them while parallelizing their testing. If your team never used a merge automation tool nor a merge queue, this is a
How Mergify Can Help With GitHub Pull Request Automation
A pull request [https://blog.mergify.com/what-is-a-pull-request/] allows a contributor to a project to experiment with new code changes without affecting the main project, then submit those changes for review. Managing pull requests can be time-consuming. You have to assign people to review code (or do it yourself), rebase
What is a Pull Request?
Most software projects are developed through collaboration—whether between a software team building a product or among individual developers creating an open-source project. Developers need a way to experiment with and isolate changes, such as new features, separate from the project. This makes it easy to track, discuss, and reverse
Introducing Mergify Discussions
From the beginning of our adventure, we built Mergify in the open. As we're building a tool for developers, we know how frustrating it can to work with closed software. In the continuity of our efforts and vision, we're launching today Mergify Discussions [https://github.com/