Merge pull request no automatic merge

seanw88

Hi,

We are currently using  Stash's auto merge feature to roll changes forward between releases. We also use Pull Requests to get the nice Peer Review features.

We have just come across an issue where we had two release branches (e.g. 1.0 and 1.1) on the go and we had to put in an emergency fix into 1.0. This had already been fixed in a different way in 1.1. In this case we still want to use a pull request for the peer review however we don't want to automatically merge the change forward because it will cause a merge conflict that we don't want to have to solve or even worse it will merge in an unexpected manner.

Is it possible to do this, merge the pull request but opt out of the automatic merge? We are aware that any changes we did want to roll forward past this point would have to be cherry picked.

Adam

You can't opt-out of auto-merge except by manually turning off auto-merge in the repository settings.

One thing you can do though, is to do a no-op merge to 1.1 before merging the 1.0 PR. From your situation it sounds like you want to mark the PR as merged to 1.1 without actually taking any of the changes in the PR. Git lets you do this with the "ours" strategy. E.g.

 

git checkout 1.1
# "merge" in the change, without actually taking the file changes
git merge -s ours my-pr-to-1.0
git push

Now when you merge the PR to 1.0, it will have already been merged to 1.1, so the auto-merge won't make any changes to 1.1.