🎯 Conditions 🔗

Conditions are used in pull request rules and queue rules to check if a pull request matches a certain rule. If a pull request matches all of the listed conditions in a rule, the subsequent actions listed in that rule will be applied. Conditions must be listed under the conditions section of the pull_request_rules or queue_rules entries — see 🔖 Configuration File.

Grammar 🔗

A condition is a string that has the following format:

[ "-" ] [ "#" ] <attribute> [ <operator> <value> ]

The optional - prefix is equivalent to the not operator.
The optional # prefix indicates to consider the length of the attribute value rather than its content.
An attribute is a property of a pull request, such as its author, its title or its base branch.
An operator is used to determine how the match between the pull request’s attribute and the defined value occurs.

For example:

author=jd evaluates to true if the GitHub login of the author of the pull request is jd.
base~=^stable/ matches any pull request whose base branch matches the regular expression ^stable/.
approved-reviews-by=sileht matches if the user sileht is in the list of contributors who approved the pull request.
#approved-reviews-by>=2 matches if at least 2 collaborators approved the pull request.
-merged matches if the pull requested has not been merged.

Warning

The # character is considered as a comment delimiter in YAML. As # is the length operator in Mergify’s conditions system, don’t forget to use " around the condition to write valid YAML syntax.

Note

operator and value are only optional if the attribute type is Boolean.

Attributes 🔗

Here’s the list of pull request attribute that can be used in conditions:

Attribute Name	Value type	Value description
`assignee`	list of string	The list of GitHub user or team login that are assigned to the pull request. Team logins are prefixed with the `@` character and must belong to the repository organization.
`approved-reviews-by`	list of string	The list of GitHub user or team login that approved the pull request. Team logins are prefixed with the `@` character and must belong to the repository organization. This only matches reviewers with `admin`, `write` or `maintain` permission on the repository.
`author`	string	The GitHub user or team login of the author of the pull request. Team logins are prefixed with the `@` character and must belong to the repository organization.
`base`	string	The name of the branch the pull request should be pulled into.
`body`	string	The contents of the pull request.
`changes-requested-reviews-by`	list of string	The list of GitHub user or team login that have requested changes in a review for the pull request. Team logins are prefixed with the `@` character and must belong to the repository organization. This only matches reviewers with `admin`, `write` or `maintain` permission on the repository.
`closed`	Boolean	Whether the pull request is closed.
`conflict`	Boolean	Whether the pull request is conflicting with its base branch.
`commented-reviews-by`	list of string	The list of GitHub user or team login that have commented in a review for the pull request. Team logins are prefixed with the `@` character and must belong to the repository organization. This only matches reviewers with `admin`, `write` or `maintain` permission on the repository.
`dismissed-reviews-by`	list of string	The list of GitHub user or team login that have their review dismissed in the pull request. Team logins are prefixed with the `@` character and must belong to the repository organization. This only matches reviewers with `admin`, `write` or `maintain` permission on the repository.
`draft`	Boolean	Whether the pull request is in draft state.
`files`	string	The files that are modified, deleted or added by the pull request.
`head`	string	The name of the branch where the pull request changes are implemented.
`label`	list of string	The list of labels of the pull request.
`locked`	Boolean	Whether the pull request is locked.
`merged`	Boolean	Whether the pull request is merged.
`merged-by`	string	The GitHub user or team login that merged the pull request. Team logins are prefixed with the `@` character and must belong to the repository organization.
`milestone`	string	The milestone title associated to the pull request.
`number`	integer	The pull request number.
`review-requested`	list of string	The list of GitHub user or team login that were requested to review the pull request. Team logins are prefixed with the `@` character and must belong to the repository organization. This only matches reviewers with `admin`, `write` or `maintain` permission on the repository.
`check-success`	list of string	The list of status checks that successfuly passed for the pull request. This is the name of a status check such as continuous-integration/travis-ci/pr or of a check run such as Travis CI - Pull Request. See About Status Checks for more details.
`check-neutral`	list of string	The list of status checks that are neutral for the pull request. This is the name of a status check such as continuous-integration/travis-ci/pr or of a check run such as Travis CI - Pull Request. See About Status Checks for more details.
`check-failure`	list of string	The list of status checks that failed for the pull request. This is the name of a status check such as continuous-integration/travis-ci/pr or of a check run such as Travis CI - Pull Request. See About Status Checks for more details.
`title`	string	The title of the pull request.

Operators 🔗

Operator Name	Symbol	Operator Description
Equal	`=` or `:`	This operator checks for strict equality. If the target attribute type is a list, each element of the list is compared against the value and the condition is true if any value matches.
Not Equal	`!=` or `≠`	This operator checks for non equality. If the target attribute type is a list, each element of the list is compared against the value and the condition is true if no value matches.
Match	`~=`	This operator checks for regular expression matching. If the target attribute type is a list, each element of the list is matched against the value and the condition is true if any value matches.
Greater Than or Equal	`>=` or `≥`	This operator checks for the value to be greater than or equal to the provided value. It’s usually used to compare against the length of a list using the `#` prefix.
Greater Than	`>`	This operator checks for the value to be greater than the provided value. It’s usually used to compare against the length of a list using the `#` prefix.
Lesser Than or Equal	`<=` or `≤`	This operator checks for the value to be lesser then or equal to the provided value. It’s usually used to compare against the length of a list using the `#` prefix.
Lesser Than	`<`	This operator checks for the value to be lesser than the provided value. It’s usually used to compare against the length of a list using the `#` prefix.

Tip

You can use PyRegex or Pythex to test your regular expression.

How To Match Lists 🔗

Some attributes have a type of list. Most Operators are able to match value against lists: they will iterate over all the values of the list and return true if any of the value matches.

For example, the label attribute is a list of string containing the names of the label attached to a pull request. With a pull request whose labels are (bug, work-in-progress), then:

label=work-in-progress is true because there is a label named work-in-progress.
label=enhancement is false because there is no label named enhancement.
label!=work-in-progress is false because there is a label named work-in-progress.
label~=^work is true because there is a label matching the regular expression ^work.
-label~=^work is false because there is a label matching the regular expression ^work but the condition is reversed with the - prefix.

The same applies for the files attribute — which contains the list of modified files:

files=README is true if the file README is modified in the pull request.
files!=README is true if the file README is not modified in the pull request.
files~=^src/ is true if any files in the src directory is modified in the pull request.
-files~=^src/ is true if none of the files that are modified are in the src directory.

Implementing Or Conditions 🔗

The conditions do not support the or operation. As Mergify evaluates and apply every matching rules from your configuration, you can implement multiple rules in order to have this.

For example, to automatically merge a pull request if its author is foo or bar, you could write:

pull_request_rules:
  - name: automatic merge if author is foo
    conditions:
      - author=foo
      - check-success=Travis CI - Pull Request
    actions:
      merge:
        method: merge

  - name: automatic merge if author is bar
    conditions:
      - author=bar
      - check-success=Travis CI - Pull Request
    actions:
      merge:
        method: merge

About Status Checks 🔗

Generic Status Check 🔗

When using the check-success, check-neutral and check-failure conditions, you need to use the name of your check service. This can be find by opening an existing pull request and scrolling down near the Merge button.

The name of the status check is written in bold on the left side. In the example above, it should be Uno.UI - CI. A condition that would make sure this checks succeed before doing any action should be written as:

conditions:
  - check-success=Uno.UI - CI

GitHub Actions 🔗

GitHub Actions works slightly differently. To match a status check when using GitHub Action, only the job name is used.

In the example above, it would be A job to say hello:

conditions:
  - check-success=A job to say hello

Validating All Status Check 🔗

A common situation is to require a condition that is true when “every status checks (CI) pass” — especially before executing the merge action.

There is no such thing as “every status check” in GitHub.

Here’s why:

Each pull request can have its own custom list of status check.
By default, a pull request has zero status check.
A status check might not be reported by a service (CI) (e.g., because it’s broken) and therefore be totally absent.

Those three facts makes it mandatory to write explicitly the checks that are expected for your condition to be valid. Therefore you should write something like:

conditions:
  - check-success=build: Windows
  - check-success=build: Linux

Do not use conditions such as:

#check-failure=0, because this will be true as soon as the pull request is created and before any service report its status (see point 2. above).
check-success~=build while expecting this to wait for all status checks that have build in their name (see point 1. above).

Such conditions won’t do what you want them to do.