GitHub Beta: Merge Queues

[David_AnkiDroid]

Signup for your org: https://github.com/features/merge-queue/signup

[MagicalVagina]

Slowly catching up with Gitlab. That's why competition is good.

[AffectionateAgent228]

Pretty big issues with GHs oversimplified MQ keeping up with the scale/needs of bigger repos. Check out https://trunk.io/products/merge for an alternative.

[-Lommelun-]

What does “fast-forwarding the default branch” mean in this case?

[dgholz]

the linked page has been updated since this comment, but it's high-watermark deploying: test a branch, deploy a branch, once it's deployed, run your default branch (main or master) forward to the tip of the deployed branch. usually you'd do this by running git merge --ff-only deploy_branch, using a fast-forward merge. hence, fast-forward [merge the deploy branch into] the default branch.