Wait until master build passes before merging

[JakeGinnivan]

Hi,

I am not super clear on the strict mode behavior. Does it wait for the master build to go green (so serialise the builds on master) or does it simply update the next PR, wait for it to go green and merge (without checking the build status for master).

The scenario I am struggling with is master does a deployment, so I want to serialise the builds on master. The simplest way is to only merge the next PR once master goes green.

Is this scenario supported?

[sileht]

Hi,

The merge action update the next PR, wait for it to go green and merge. Its goal is to never merge a broken pull request.

Depending on what you try to achieve, you also have the queue action that allows configuring a different set of conditions for moving the pull request into the merge queue and for doing the final merge.

In the future, we may provide something to pause the merge queue if needed, maybe via API.

[jd]

IIUC, you want to wait for a CI to finish on master before merging the next PR?

That does not sound like something possible currently with Mergify nor GitHub. There's no link between a CI reporting on master and pull requests.

The only way to do that would have the build on master to report on all PR as a status check. It could report failure to prevent merging while it builds, and report a success when master is ready to get a new PR merged.