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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

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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'

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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

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Managing data retrieval in React

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

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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,

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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, we add to define a data model that allowed us to store a list of referrers and referees, with some

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How to serve static files from GitHub

Like many developers out there, you might use GitHub to store your source code. When you're building something pretty simple like a Web application, HTML files, JavaScript code, CSS stylesheets, etc., it could be useful to directly distribute your file through HTTP. The Naive ApproachYou probably tried the first simple

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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, a place where you can engage with

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A React Crisp Component

‌Some time ago, Mergify decided to move his chat widget from Drift to Crisp. What's this, you say? You know, this is the little button at the bottom right of your screen where you can engage with our fantastic support team! IntegrationTo integrate the chat widget into our React application,

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We're now part of GitHub Sponsors

Last year, GitHub announced the GitHub Sponsors program, a new way for organizations and individuals to contribute to open source. Today, we are glad to announce that you can contribute to Mergify using this program. We've been providing a free service for thousands of open source projects, and we want

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Batching queries with GraphQL

GraphQL has seen a booming growth over the last years. A large number of API providers are switching to this new paradigm of querying data on the Web. At Mergify, we’re no exception. To implement our automation engine, we’re heavy users of the GitHub API whose version 4

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Managing your GitHub pull request from the command line

At Mergify, we love providing the best tools for developers. Like many software engineers out there, we leverage GitHub to collaborate. After all, that’s how we started this! The GitHub pull request model is nice, but usually requires a lot of manual steps: Forking the repository by clicking in