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
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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
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.
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
Git How To Write Good Commit Messages 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
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Git 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?
GitHub The Essential GitHub CLI Commands 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
Git What's the Best Git Merge Strategy? Once developers have completed work on project features and you’ve approved their pull requests, it’s time to merge those requests into the main project repository. When doing so,
GitHub 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
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Mergify Changelog 2021Q1 Another quarter passed, and it's now an excellent time to reflect on what changed for Mergify over the last three months. Multiple QueuesOne of our major projects over the last
Git Everything You Need to Know About Git Merge A fundamental aspect of working on open-source projects is separating bug fixes, feature developments, and similar tasks into separate branches. Doing so lets developers experiment with code solutions free of
Open-Source 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
Features 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
GitHub (Un)signed commits: how we found a (non) security bug in GitHub When you build an entire software around someone else API, you tend to know everything about it. We made Mergify on top of GitHub API, and it's hard to describe
GitHub Pull Request vs. Merge Request: What's the Difference? One of the most well-known and often-used git tools, the pull request is often also referred to as a merge request. These git-based requests are often utilized to promote cooperation
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PostgreSQL Cycle detection in PostgreSQL A few months ago, we decided to build a referral program for Mergify. This is a well-known, classical way of bringing more people on your product. To build this program,
GitHub Debugging Dependabot nonworking Security Updates Running a project requires good security practice and management. Handling the security of software passes through holding the safety of its dependencies. GitHub's answers to that have been to provide
GitHub How to Merge Branches in GitHub When working on open source projects in GitHub, developers must be able to test out new code changes without affecting the main project. To do so, they can create a
