Add support for auto-merge

[Sese-Schneider]

Prerequisites:

• GitHub Docs
• I couldn't find API availability - however I'm not that familiar with GitHub API docs so it might be.

New Feature

Request: A config field allowing the repository settings "Allow auto-merge" to be controlled.

[travi]

I am very interested in this functionality as well, but have also not found any mention of it in the API docs yet. Since this is new functionality and there always seems to be some lag before things like this show up in the API, it's not surprising.

The best thing that folks wanting this functionality can do for now is to contact support and ask for the functionality to be exposed through the API. Please report as responses that you get here, so we can get some idea of any progress. Also, feel free to reference this issue to help them gauge interest from the community.

[stale]

Is this still relevant? If so, what is blocking it? Is there anything you can do to help move it forward?

[ocean90]

The API has been updated to support allow_auto_merge , see https://github.blog/changelog/2021-08-17-maintainers-can-now-manage-the-availability-of-auto-merge-in-a-repository/. You can now add allow_auto_merge: true to the config and no other changes are required.

The GitHub Blog

Maintainers can now manage the availability of auto-merge in a repository | GitHub Changelog

Maintainers can now manage the availability of auto-merge in a repository

[travi]

great news! thanks for the heads up @ocean90!

[Sese-Schneider]

Feature is supported now.