Merge Pal

This action will help your prs to get merged!

Contents

• Features
• Usage
  • Note about tokens
  • Quick start
  • Configuration

Features

• relises on mergability rules defined in your repository
• automatically updates your PR to be up to date with base branch
• supports white and black lists through labels
• supports various types of merge: normal, squash and rebase
• integrates seamlessly into GitHub Actions workflows as well as other 3rdparty checks

Usage

Note about tokens

Due to existing restriction workflows can not trigger each other if they are authorized with secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN. For instance if you are using workflows that runs when code is pushed to master it will not be triggered if secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN is used to authorize Merge Pal. In such a scenarion you have to create personal access token and use it instead.

  - uses: maxkomarychev/merge-pal-action@vX.Y.Z
    with:
      token: ${{ secrets.MY_USER_TOKEN }}

Quick Start

1. Specify desired mergeability rules in branch settings in your repository

2. Create workflow to handle various events that affect mergeability of PR (.github/workflows/merge-pal-events.yml):

   name: Merge Pal (events)
   
   on:
     push: {} # update PR when base branch is updated
     status: {} # try to merge when other checks are completed
     pull_request_review: # try to merge after review
       types:
         - submitted
         - edited
         - dismissed
     pull_request: # try to merge if labels have changed (white/black list)
       types:
         - labeled
         - unlabeled
   
   jobs:
     # thats's all. single step is needed - if PR is mergeable according to
     # branch protection rules it will be merged automatically
     mergepal:
       runs-on: ubuntu-latest
       steps:
         - uses: actions/checkout@v1
         - uses: maxkomarychev/merge-pal-action@vX.Y.Z
           with:
             token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
   

3. Add Merge Pal to the end of your existing check (if any) with GitHub Actions

   name: Merge Pal (PR)
   
   on:
     pull_request:
       types:
         - synchronize
         - opened
   
   jobs:
     test-this: # test one things
       runs-on: ubuntu-latest
       steps:
         - run: echo "All ok"
     test-that: # test other things
       runs-on: ubuntu-latest
       steps:
         - run: echo "All ok"
     mergepal-merge: # run merge pal in the end
       runs-on: ubuntu-latest
       needs:
         # make sure all required jobs are listed here
         - test1-this
         - test1-that
       steps:
         - uses: actions/checkout@v1
         - uses: maxkomarychev/merge-pal-action@vX.Y.Z
           with:
             token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
   

Configuration

Various aspects of Merge Pal's behavior are configured thorugh configuration file.

Create file .mergepal.yml in root folder of your repo. It can hold the following fields:

field	type	description
whitelist	string[]	whitelisted labels to perform automerge
blacklist	string[]	blacklisted labels to forbid automerge
method	"merge" | "squash" | "rebase"	method to use when merging

example:

whitelist:
  - good-to-merge
blacklist:
  - wip
  - do-not-merge
method: squash