Merge check gets stuck indefinitely

[BrettCleary]

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When merging down from main with the "Update branch" button, I see the error below and the "Checking for the ability to merge automatically..." message and spinner persist indefinitely.

occurred on this PR

Same behavior with the old merge experience

occurred on this PR.

Closing and re-opening the PR does not fix. The only fix is opening a new PR with the same branch which of course is not a good flow.

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[phpld]

I'm assuming this problem is widespread. I'm having exactly the same problem.

[april-trayaway]

Same

[B15H0P-07]

This probably has to do with the issues at MS of today

[indraxi]

Check for Large Diffs: If your branch has a substantial number of changes compared to the main branch, GitHub might struggle to compute the mergeability, leading to the hanging message. In such cases, consider breaking down your changes into smaller, more manageable pull requests.

[monperrus]

FTR hit that bug today twice in a row, without a big diff merge.

[mxmehl]

Same here, stuck in the merge check for 12 hours now: mxmehl/castmail2list#125

Edit: solved by amending the last commit and force-pushing to the branch to trigger the workflows (and probably mergability check) again. This didn't work a few hours ago, but now it did.

[Doezer]

Got a similar issue, will try what mxmehl suggested

[Doezer]

Just to give a heads up, I used gh cli to merge and that worked

[rlott]

This issue is still present. I have a PR that has only 14 commits so the large diff is not the problem. The PR has been hanging since this past Tuesday. Doing commit amends and force-pushes doesn't solve the issue. I don't want to close the PR and open a new one if it doesn't solve the problem. Would it be possible for the GitHub developers to add some form of button so that if someone experiences the hang, then the button could gather and report the exact circumstances that is causing the hang? This is very frustrating!

[jalexstark]

This is absolutely still present. This is the second time that this has hit me within a couple of weeks. It is actually quite pathetic.

[jalexstark]

This time saving the pull request as draft seemed to work. So there is very obviously a bug.