Pull Request auto-merge didn't merge

[peter-lawrey]

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I had a PR which said it auto merged successfully but instead it didn't do anything.
There is no indication I see that it failed, show "Merged [peter-lawrey] merged 2 commits into [develop] from [adv/fixes] Copied!46 minutes ago" as the status.
However, a subsequent PR between the same two branches shows all changes are yet to be applied.

[tolgaexploder]

Double-check that your branch is protected (e.g. requires merge commits) or that auto-merge is set correctly. Try pulling develop locally and confirm if the commits are really there if not, re-merge manually.

[peter-lawrey]

They aren't in develop which is how I discovered it when I tried another PR which depended on those changes.

The 2nd PR was showing that the changes were still required with develop missing the changes, however I did an "Update rebase" on the branch and it closed the PR.

It seems to have been a transient error. Eventually consistent.

[peter-lawrey]

The PR that depended on these changes fixed itself after doing an "update rebase" ie it's view of the branch being merged to changed. I had assumed the Update only altered the branch being merge, not the version of branch being merged with.
Even so the new PRs were pointing a version of the branch to merge with that was at least 20 mins old when I created them.

[tolgaexploder]

Glad it’s working now. It looks like the issue was transient and the update rebase refreshed the branch view, bringing everything back in sync.