Merge Renovate's PRs via Mergify Automatically

Merge Renovate's PRs via Mergify Automatically

The other day I successfully set up Renovate (automated dependency update application) for my Hugo modules and modular sites. But I soon realized that manually merging these PRs was very tedious. So I started looking for a way to automatically merge PRs.

What’s wrong with Renovate’s built-in Auto Merge?

The first thing that came to mind was Renovate’s own auto-merge feature, but it takes a long time to merge a PR, which is not what I was expecting.

Mergify

So I started looking for alternatives from GitHub marketplace, and give the most popular one - Mergify a shot, it works great up to now.

Mergify Configuration

Put the .mergify.yml file on the repo root.

1pull_request_rules:
2  - name: automatic merge for Renovate pull requests
3    conditions:
4      - author=renovate[bot]
5      - check-success=build
6    actions:
7      merge:
8        method: rebase

Read more on Mergify Docs.