Automation trigger: 'Commit Created' does not account for merge commits

Question

I am setting up some automation rules to capture {{commit.hash}} for every commit created using the 'When Commit Created' trigger.  The rules does get triggered when I make a commit to my dev branch (b458626). After merging to the 'main' branch, this merge commit does NOT trigger the rule (a1ed54d). Is the rule making a distinction between a commit and a merge commit?

Sriram Ramanathan_7152jp · Answer

How do I get the commit hash for a merge commit

If I use Pull Request Merge, I am not getting the {{commit.hash}} value in it (as it gets set only on commit created trigger

If I use commit created trigger, then it is not getting fired for a merge commit

Aron Gombas _Midori_ · Answer

I checked out their docs, and they don't mention if they differentiate between "regular" and "merge" commits, so I would assume the same like you did. But, it seems it is not how it is... :-/

Funnily, we develop the DevOps Automation app for self-hosted Jira, and our Commit Created trigger works as you wrote: we provide a {{devops.commit.isMerge}} smart value which you can use to filter merge commits:

You confirmed that it is an intuitive design. :-)

Josué Garcia_v2yl0b · Answer

Hi Aron, this is for manual merges without issuing a pull request. I was hoping the automation rule would trigger on all commits and just filter using {{isMergeCommit}} smart value.