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How to merge branches on github.com without doing pull request?

It looks like GitHub only allows merging of branches by making a pull request and then merging.

Is there a way to merge mobile into main in a single step without cloning locally?

I only see this button, which creates a pull request that needs to be merged in a second step:

Compare, review, create a pull request
Solution

  • You can use GitHub Docs' GraphQL API Explorer to run a mergeBranch mutation:

    mutation {
  mergeBranch(
    input: {
      repositoryId: "MDEwOlJlcG9zaXRvcwNzI="
      base: "master"
      head: "cool_feature"
      commitMessage: "Shipped cool_feature!"
    }
  ) {
    clientMutationId
    mergeCommit {
      oid
      message
    }
  }
}

    Note: You can look up your repository's id by using the repository query to search by owner and name.

    {
  repository(owner: "my-name", name: "my-repo") {
    id
  }
}