tide

README

Tide

Tide is a Prow component for managing a pool of GitHub PRs that match a given set of criteria. It will automatically retest PRs that meet the criteria ("tide comes in") and automatically merge them when they have up-to-date passing test results ("tide goes out").

Open Issues

Documentation

• I JUST WANT MY PR TO MERGE!
• Configuring Tide
• Maintainer's Guide

Features

• Automatically runs batch tests and merges multiple PRs together whenever possible.
• Ensures that PRs are tested against the most recent base branch commit before they are allowed to merge.
• Maintains a GitHub status context that indicates if each PR is in a pool or what requirements are missing.
• Supports blocking merge to individual branches or whole repos using specifically labelled GitHub issues.
• Exposes Prometheus metrics.
• Supports repos that have 'optional' status contexts that shouldn't be required for merge.
• Serves live data about current actions and pools which can be consumed by Deck to populate the Tide dashboard and the PR dashboard.
• Scales efficiently so that a single instance with a single bot token can provide merge automation to dozens of orgs and repos with unique merge criteria. Every distinct 'org/repo:branch' combination defines a disjoint merge pool so that merges only affect other PRs in the same branch.
• Provides configurable merge modes ('merge', 'squash', or 'rebase').

History

Tide was created in 2017 by @spxtr to replace Mungegithub's Submit Queue. It was designed to manage a large number of repositories across organizations without using many API rate limit tokens by identifying mergeable PRs with GitHub search queries fulfilled by GitHub's v4 GraphQL API.